Spatial analysis software is software written to enable and facilitate spatial analysis. It comprises a broad class of tools designed to store, manipulate, visualize, and interpret data with a geographic or spatial component. These applications support tasks such as geostatistics, spacial modeling, network analysis, and raster-vector processing, enabling researchers and practitioners to derive meaningful patterns and relationships from location-based information.
Currently, there are several software packages, ranging from fully open-source projects to proprietary software, which address different layers of the spatial data infrastructure stack.