SAGA GIS

Simple terrain model processing

Why extrernal GIS Software?

  • some functionalities not implemented in R but in QGIS, SAGA, GRASS, ArcGIS…
  • e.g. tools in the field of hydrology and morphometry not common in R but in SAGA
  • Links to functionalities via R Packages: RSAGA, rgrass7, RQIS, RPyGeo
  • Workflow-centric in R
    • no manual processing steps
    • reproducible

SAGA GIS

Task

Flow accumulation