SAGA - short hand for "System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses" - is a free, hybrid, cross-platform GIS software. The heart of SAGA is its C++ and thus object oriented Application Programming Interface (API), providing data object definitions and computational methods for raster, vector and tabular data. As a normal user, you will not get into touch with the API. But as an interested scientist or coder you will soon discover its great flexibility. WWW: http://www.saga-gis.org/en/index.html