MapTools

Spatial Analysis & GeoAI

Spatial analysis tools handle the heavy lifting: spatial joins, indexing, raster processing and machine learning on imagery. Many are free and open source; cloud engines charge for compute.

16 tools · 14 free or freemium · 10 open source

SAGA GIS

saga-gis.sourceforge.io

Free GIS with a large library of terrain and raster analysis tools

Open source10

ArcGIS Pro

esri.com

Esri's professional desktop GIS

Paid9

CARTO

carto.com

Cloud-native location intelligence on your data warehouse

Enterprise8

GRASS GIS

grass.osgeo.org

Open-source GIS for advanced raster, vector and terrain analysis

Open source8

WhiteboxTools

whiteboxgeo.com

Advanced terrain, hydrology and lidar analysis toolkit

Open source6

Sentinel Hub

sentinel-hub.com

APIs for satellite imagery processing and streaming

Freemium5

Wherobots

wherobots.com

Cloud spatial data processing from the creators of Apache Sedona

Freemium4

PostGIS

postgis.net

Spatial database extension for PostgreSQL

Open source3

Turf.js

turfjs.org

Geospatial analysis in JavaScript, in the browser or Node

Open source3

GDAL/OGR

gdal.org

The universal library for raster and vector geodata formats

Open source2

GeoPandas

geopandas.org

Geospatial data analysis with pandas in Python

Open source2

H3

h3geo.org

Uber's hexagonal hierarchical spatial index

Open source2

Apache Sedona

sedona.apache.org

Distributed spatial processing on Spark and Flink

Open source2

Fused

fused.io

Serverless Python for geospatial workflows

Freemium2

Google Earth Engine

earthengine.google.com

Planetary-scale analysis of satellite imagery in the cloud

Freemium1

DuckDB Spatial

duckdb.org

Fast spatial SQL on files, right on your laptop

Open source1