QGIS

QGIS is a full-featured, user-friendly, geographic information system (GIS). The module makes variants with version 3.40 and 3.44 available.

Software	Version
QGIS	3.44.3
SAGA GIS	9.3.1
GRASS GIS	8.3.2

Usage example

The default variant uses release 3.44 of QGIS. If this is sufficient the following command executed in the terminal is enough to load the bundle:

module load qgis

The following example loads the variant with QGIS 3.40

module load qgis release=3.40

The module makes the following commands available:

qgis
grass
saga_cmd
saga_gui

The qgis_shell command can be used to access a shell in the bundle.

Run pet list -t qgis for a list of examples.

Performance notes

No performance notes available

Recommended resources per session

QGIS should be run on a system with at least 16 GB of RAM and 2 threads.

Benchmarks

No benchmarks available.

Community guides and tutorials

• No community guides available.

Official site and documentation

QGIS

• Site
• Documentation

SAGA GIS

• Site
• Documentation

GRASS GIS

• Site
• Documentation

Licensing information

QGIS is licensed under the GPLv2 license, SAGA GIS is licensed under the GPL license, and GRASS GIS is licensed under the GPLv2 license.

Primary citation

The QGIS project: Spatial without compromise Anita Graser, Tim Sutton, Marco Bernasocchi3 Published online May 20, 2025 doi

External guides and resources

• If you know of a guide/tutorial that you have found useful, please help us share it by contacting the HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za