Table 2 A sample of the geospatial analysis software programs available
From: Beyond mapping: a case for geospatial analytics in humanitarian health
ESRI Arc Software (https://www.esri.com/en-us/home): Includes ArcPro, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online. A GIS for creating maps, compiling geographic data into geodatabases, geospatial analysis, visualization, and data sharing. | Subscription required |
QGIS Software (https://qgis.org/en/site/): A GIS for creating maps, compiling geographic data into geodatabases, geospatial analysis and visualization. | Free and open source |
SaTScan (https://qgis.org/en/site/): Software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using scan statistics. | Free and open source |
R package SpatialEpiApp (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SpatialEpiApp/index.html): A GIS for spatial epidemiological analysis that utilizes the R programming language and environment. | Free and open source |
R package INLA (http://www.r-inla.org/): A software package within R that creates Bayesian models for spatial data. | Free and open source |
STAN (https://mc-stan.org): Software for facilitating statistical inference that interfaces with many data analysis languages including R, Python, shell, MaTLAB, Julia, and Stata) | Free and open source |