Geographic data can be manipulated using quite a lot proprietary and free tools, available on different platforms. Each tool is capable of managing at different levels of usability/flexibility most of the common formats and all formats suggested in this policy.

• Grass GIS
• Qgis
• SagaGIS
• Mapwindow
• Monteverdi
• Gdal/FWtools

• NEST ESA Sartoolbox
• Python for scientific apps
• R and its packages

• TatukGIS Viewer
• Erdas Viewer
• Erdas Titan Client
• ECW plugins

Sources appears not immediately available or distributed. Maybe available on demand, not sure. Also licenses could present important limitations.

• Spring
• MaxEnt
• Fragstats

• ESRI ArcGis
• ITT Envi/IDL
• Erdas Imagine
• Ecognition