id
	15602
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/15602
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) v. 2.1.4
Creator
	Conrad, O.
	Bechtel, B.
	Bock, M.
	Dietrich, H.
	Fischer, E.
	Gerlitz, L.
	Wehberg, J.
	Wichmann, V.
	Böhner, J.
Date
	2015
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Abstract. The System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) is an open source geographic information system (GIS), mainly licensed under the GNU General Public License. Since its first release in 2004, SAGA has rapidly developed from a specialized tool for digital terrain analysis to a comprehensive and globally established GIS platform for scientific analysis and modeling. SAGA is coded in C++ in an object oriented design and runs under several operating systems including Windows and Linux. Key functional features of the modular software architecture comprise an application programming interface for the development and implementation of new geoscientific methods, a user friendly graphical user interface with many visualization options, a command line interpreter, and interfaces to interpreted languages like R and Python. The current version 2.1.4 offers more than 600 tools, which are implemented in dynamically loadable libraries or shared objects and represent the broad scopes of SAGA in numerous fields of geoscientific endeavor and beyond. In this paper, we inform about the system's architecture, functionality, and its current state of development and implementation. Furthermore, we highlight the wide spectrum of scientific applications of SAGA in a review of published studies, with special emphasis on the core application areas digital terrain analysis, geomorphology, soil science, climatology and meteorology, as well as remote sensing.
Is Part Of
	Geoscientific Model Development
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1991-2015
Issn
	1991-9603
Issue
	7
Pages
	1991-2007
Volume
	8
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/4M779K7V/item-list

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