Specialist tool for terrain analysis and geomorphology research; the first choice for DTM/DEM analysis.
SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) focuses on digital terrain analysis and provides hundreds of geomorphological algorithms. It excels at DEM/DTM processing, slope and aspect analysis, watershed extraction and topographic wetness index calculation, and can also serve as an algorithm provider for QGIS.
Use cases: terrain analysis, DEM processing, hydrological analysis, soil erosion modelling