Dear Paulo,
I completely agree about SAGA. I have been monitoring the evolution of
SAGA (or better to say of
Olaf Conrad) for quite some time. It is definitively one of the most
extensive packages to analyze
DEMs, but also to do various grid computing (including geostatistics; see
also my lecture notes
down-below).
I would be very much interested to see your R code-examples where you call
SAGA operations. Olaf
told me that this functionality is still under construction (at least no
instruction exists yet).
all the best,
Tom Hengl
http://spatial-analyst.net
Hengl, T., 2007. A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping of
Environmental Variables. EUR 22904
EN Scientific and Technical Research series, Office for Official
Publications of the European
Communities, Luxemburg, 143 pp.
http://eusoils.jrc.it/ESDB_Archive/eusoils_docs/other/EUR22904en.pdf
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Hi Tom,
In addition to the (very useful) earlier posts, I would like to point
out SAGA GIS. It is a very good GIS software (and freeware / open
source), especially for grid analyses. It has a command line version,
which together with the ability of R to invoke system commands using
either 'Shell' or 'system' makes it fairly easy to do the typical GIS
work in SAGA, and carry out other analyses in R, all from within R. With
the recent release of the RSAGA package for R this has become
considerably easier.
The documentation for SAGA is somewhat poor, but there are two very
useful user guides available. See the SAGA website
(http://www.saga-gis.uni-goettingen.de/html/index.php) for links. See
CRAN for the RSAGA package.
Paulo