Bug#570014: ITP: saga -- SAGA GIS (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses)

[Johan Van de Wauw <johan@zadeh.UGent.be>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw@gmail.com>


* Package name    : saga
  Version         : 2.0.4
  Upstream Author : Olaf Conrad <oconrad@saga-gis.org>
* URL             : http://www.saga-gis
* License         : GPL, LGPL (API)
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : SAGA GIS (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses)

Open source GIS for editing and analysing spatial data (vector and raster)
Some examples of modules include:

    * File access: interfaces to various table, vector, image and grid file formats
    * Filter for grids: gaussian, laplacian, multi direction lee filter
    * Gridding: interpolation from vector data using triangulation, nearest neighbour, inverse distance
    * Geostatistics: residual analysis, ordinary and universal kriging, single and multiple regression analysis, variance analysis.
    * Grid calculator: combine grids through user defined functions
    * Grid discretisation: skeletonisation, segmentation
    * Grid tools: merging, resampling, gaps filling
    * Image classification:cluster analysis, box classification, maximum likelihood, pattern recognition, region growing
    * Projections:various coordinate transformations for vector and grid data (using Proj4 and GeoTrans libraries), georeferencing of grids
    * Simulation of dynamic processes: TOPMODEL, nitrogen distributions, erosion, landscape development
    * Terrain analysis:slope, aspect, curvatures, curvature classification, analytical hillshading, sink eliminition, flow path analysis, catchment delineation, solar radiation, channel lines, relative altitudes
    * Vector tools: polygon intersection, contour lines from grid