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What is SAGA GIS?

SAGA is the abbreviation for System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses. SAGA provides an easily approachable user interface with many visualisation options.

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SAGA is the abbreviation for System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses. SAGA provides an easily approachable user interface with many visualisation options.


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Amol S.
AS
Amol S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Good Open-Source Geo-Analytics Software"
The ease with which one can perform geospatial data analysis on variable projection systems and represent data using a very user-friendly GUI where...
CHANCY S.
CS
CHANCY S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Review on SAGA GIS"
SAGA GIS is an open-source software used for geospatial technology. SAGA GIS has various ready-to-use tools such as terrain analysis, hydrology an...
Eunice S.
ES
Eunice S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Develop your GIS project with SAGA"
The amount of features available is enormous, you can use raster and spatial information from many formats, like the common shapefile, or even .tab...
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SAGA GIS Pros and Cons

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Amol S.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

The ease with which one can perform geospatial data analysis on variable projection systems and represent data using a very user-friendly GUI where you can open multiple windows at once are some of the best features of SAGA GIS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

Sometimes integrating with external software like QGIS causes some inconvenience, but nothing that cannot be sorted out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I usually perform terrain analysis, generating carious layers using high-resolution digital elevation models and creating models and simulations of landslides to understand their dynamic nature. Further, image analysis carried out using SAGA GIS produced satisfactory results as compared to higher end softwares which consumes more space and are costlier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CHANCY S.
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Training and Research in Earth Eco-System Program
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

SAGA GIS is an open-source software used for geospatial technology.

SAGA GIS has various ready-to-use tools such as terrain analysis, hydrology analysis, fire spread analysis, etc.

SAGA GIS has a GUI software application as well as a Python API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

SAGA GIS does not efficiently handle big data.

SAGA GIS needs advanced tools for digital image processing and to create 3D maps.

SAGA GIS does not work with iOS Operating System. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using SAGA GIS, I am working on the time series analysis of Climate change and Terrain Analysis.

SAGA GIS tools are easy to understand, very optimized, and give accurate results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eunice S.
ES
Adminstration Professional
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

The amount of features available is enormous, you can use raster and spatial information from many formats, like the common shapefile, or even .tab files or files from Grass or similar software, you can open virtually any type of raster image, no matter the extension or the data, you have hundreds of options to visualize your data together or individually, the software runs smooth and the interphase is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

The only issue using SAGA is that every feature is open individually and that can be a little annoying if you need to see for sample an attribute table and at the same time the spatial features, in SAGA you cannot do this, every feature of the file has to be open in a new window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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SAGA is an excellent option to manage and work with spatial data, as an open source software you can customized en the way you want and select the specific features that you need to get the most of it, but it can be a little difficult in the beginning because manage each feature window by window is a little annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using SAGA we could build a new set of spatial information for our business where we put the data of our suppliers and buyers and we set the routes and the places that we can reach based in our location, this was an excellent way to improve our sells and search for a whole new set of suppliers for our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Libia G.
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

Although I am not a specialist in the area, in a short time I learned to use many of its modules, which means that it is a very intuitive tool and easy to learn to use, the graphic output of the vectors impressed me, this software has a great capacity to handle large volumes of information and vectors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

the modules of spatial analysis are the ones that cost me the most to learn, sometimes many steps must be taken to be able to combine the variables that we want to study, so for future versions I would expect that all these steps could be simplified and I would add an export module to a greater number of vector format Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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If I would recommend it, it is a very powerful tool, essential for any professional who wants to venture into the field of cartography and spatial analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

For months I worked on a project with a group of geographers, I had the opportunity to work with this geographic information system that allowed us to georeference, vectorize and create thematic cartogrhip, in addition to providing important data in the field of spatial analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edgar R.
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Coordinator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

It is a very stable and easy to use software, it has all the basic tools that a professional geographic information system must have, the spatial analysis tools are very fast and compatible with the basic database formats, its open source code allows improvements to the program, a strong point to highlight are the vectorization tools and the layer control panel, they are intuitive and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

It is necessary to incorporate a greater number of compatible formats into the Software, it is essential to add a module to import files from other platforms, another point that should be improved is the printing tray, it is a bit inconvenient to use, georeferencing is a procedure that should be improved For future versions, it is important to simplify this procedure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAGA GIS:

if I recommend it, it is economical, stable, intuitive and allows to obtain professional results, you have more virtids than failures, in general lines it is a program that is worth using. if you need to perform studies of spatial analysis is an indispensable program for you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

the geographic information system has been very useful for the creation of electoral constituencies for different projects, it has also been very useful in the spatial analysis of the electoral results, it has saved us a lot of time and money, achieving in the process professional results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Augusto P.
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Librero
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

It is free and offer to you a huge amount of feature to work, you can work with data from SQL, OBDC or Postgret, so you can add a lot of attribute and information to your shapefiles using SAGA, besides you can manage a lot of formats, like raster, shapefiles, grid, DEM, tables and more, making the work easier and faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

The interphase can be quite annonying, because every single element that you add to your workspace appears separately, so if you want to edit for example an attribute table and watch the shapefile, you have to jump from a square to another to see the results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAGA GIS:

If you want a free software to manage spatial data and a lot of information SAGA is for you, but you have to be aware remember this is a free software, so the interphase and some processes can be a little niche. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We develop a system of monitoring and evalution of delivering using SAGA, so we could track our packages, check the routes and evaluate if we are doing the work in the right way, this is because I work as administrator managing this kind of system and I can make a link between spatial data and administration of supplies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carmen A.
CA
Directora de Metodologia y Analisis Electoral
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

The advance of Geographical Information Systems has its maximum expression with this program, which is an improvement in relation to those already existing in the market, it is easy to use and the product that is obtained is of great quality and that is the most important, this tool has many functions and easily adapt to the demands or what we are looking for, in general lines is an excellent option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

To be able to use this tool it is necessary to have previous knowledge because otherwise it is a bit difficult to use them, however it is an excellent option to update the geographic information systems, the range of options they have are really very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAGA GIS:

If you need to keep updated some geographic information system that gives you quality results I can widely recommend this application since it definitely meets all the expectations we expect, plus the cost ratio benefits of acquiring it is worth it, it is a program that is the pair of the demands of these times, its constant updating has turned it into an excellent option for the management of the SI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my work we have several programs that help us keep our geographic information systems up-to-date and this tool is an innovation within this whole range that we handle, it is very complete and the outputs that we obtain of high quality, it was really worth investing in this tool since the benefits have been superior. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mario J T.
MT
Analista
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

I can manage a lot of information simultaneously, because every feature of your shapefile is open separately, so you can see the data, the draw and the tables and you can modify and analyze your data at the same time, besides you can open a lot of extension like shapfiles, TIN, terrain and raster files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

I really do not have any complain about this software because it can be as good as a private one is, you can do a lot of things and the results are awesome, maybe the interphase is a little a outdated but that is a minor issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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This can be a pretty useful software for people who needs to analyze data and modify it at the same time, because each elements of the maps is open separately, and you can see the tables and add information easily and keep on track about all the changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have make a lot of maps and raster analysis with SAGA, for example last year we keep on track about the crops growing in the municipalities, and through SAGA we could monitor how the crops were growing and calculate how much money we could receive from de production, this was very easy, because we can analyse the draw and tables at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siva G.
SG
Project Manager
E-Learning
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

SAGA saves equipment resources focusing its effort on data processing and not on visualization with a high level of aesthetics, allows QGIS to be used as a visualizer of the results of the processes and allows the user the possibility of obtaining a product . Graphic printing of higher quality.

You can analyze areal and satellite picture .SAGA GIS is free software with a lot of tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

it is necessary to devote a little more to the development of the data loading interface, explanation of the method and other things that contribute to the learning of new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAGA GIS:

Update the system. Add more options. Make it more appealing. Implement something that will speed up the software so it doesnt crash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The greatest contribution that SAGA offers us is the application of complex analysis methods of localized data for free, it facilitates geoscience researchers, who do not have high budgets for their research, operate software with a high level of complexity without cost, The tool is fed with the findings that these scientists can launch in the future and share with the developers to create a new version of an existing or completely new analysis method, in a human environment practically free of cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cesar A S.
CS
Landing Page Creator - Escala APP & Elementor
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What do you like best about SAGA GIS?

Comparison with other GIS this can be use easily, you just need to open the software and immediately you have a menu that allows you to open shapefiles, tables, projects, TIN, raster and many other formats, in other softwares this process can be difficult and annoying, and after you open your file you can enjoy all the tools that SAGA offers to you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAGA GIS?

It can be difficult to use in the beginning because unlike other software that manage all the elements in the same screen, in SAGA is different, because every element that you open or add to your workspace is represent in a small square on the screen and that can be difficult to use if you to analyze a lot of elements simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SAGA GIS:

This is one of the best option to analyze data to developing projects, because you can manage a lot of formats simultaneously and you can analyze all the data together for your projects, and that is a big advantage to your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAGA GIS solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAGA help us to create and modify terrain to developing housing and parks in the municipality, using shapefiles, raster and TIN, and analyzing them simultaneously we could find the perfect terrains to develop our projects in the best time and with the best quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.