Cost Path Analysis of Mars using SAGA

Purpose

The purpose of this tutorial is to learn the steps leading up to the creation of a Least Cost Path within the open source program known as SAGA, by using several tools. The skill level in GIS is intermediate, some skill level is required having to know what values you would require, plus what additional alteration are needed within different data set.

Objectives

The outcome after this tutorial is to know the tools that go into creating a least cost path anaylsis, such as point creations, Kriging, Terrain Analysis, Accumulation Cost, Reclassify and lastly Least cost Path.

Introduction

SAGA is an opensource program for GIS that has a lot of capability in Geoscientific analysis, its been designed for effective implementation of spatial algorithms, more information about SAGA you can visit their home pageHome page