A Powerful Contouring, Gridding, and Surface Mapping Package for Scientists and EngineersSurfer is the most powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use contouring and 3D surface mapping package available. Surfer easily and accurately transforms your data into spectacularly colorful contour, surface, wireframe, shaded relief, image, post, and vector maps in minutes! And best of all, Surfer is affordable!
Since 1984, over 100,000 scientists and engineers worldwide have discovered Surfer's power and simplicity. Surfer's outstanding gridding and contouring capabilities have made Surfer the software of choice for working with irregularly spaced XYZ data. Over the years, Surfer users have included hydrologists, engineers, geologists, archeologists, oceanographers, biologists, foresters, geophysicists, medical researchers, climatologists, and more! Anyone wanting to visualize their data with striking clarity and accuracy will benefit from Surfer's powerful features!
Superior Gridding!Surfer provides more gridding methods and more control over gridding parameters than any other software package on the market. Surfer will quickly interpolate irregularly or regularly spaced data into a useful, functional map. Use Surfer's default settings or choose from twelve different gridding methods. Each gridding method provides complete control over an abundant number of gridding parameters to generate the most accurate map possible to best represent your data. Creating high-precision maps has never been so easy!
Powerful Mapping!The possibilities are limited only by your imagination! Customize your maps so they look their best! Each of Surfer’s ten map types has a multitude of editing options to enhance its appearance. Change line colors and thicknesses, edit point shapes, sizes, and colors, or add gradient color fills and color scale bars. Contour maps allow you to manipulate contour line intervals, thickness, color, and labeling. For shaded relief maps and 3D surface maps, quickly change the lighting angle for a realistic appearance. Create maps with multitudes of information by including scale bars, legends, and labels. These are just some of the endless options Surfer offers to easily create the most colorful, descriptive, and understandable maps – ready for publication!
Numerous Grid Functions!In addition to creating surfaces, grid files allow you to perform a variety of functions. Just a few of the possibilities are calculating volume and area, subtracting or adding grid files, or converting outliers to a minimum or maximum value. Grid files also enable you to apply filters to emphasize details or remove background variation, blank a grid file to prevent contours from being drawn through specific areas (buildings, roads, or outside of field areas), or create cross sections.
User Frieldly- Easy-to-learn, modern Windows user
interface. - Download free updates automatically.
- Print to any Windows compatible device.
- Copy and paste into other applications.
- Select, edit, show, or hide all components
in an easy-to-use hierarchical tree view. - Multiple informative reports can be generated.
- Customize toolbars, appearance, menus,
keyboard shortcuts, and window layouts. - Use mouse wheel to zoom in/out.
- Reload data for all maps with a single command.
General Features- Define custom colors, fill patterns, and line styles.
- Define axis attributes including titles, grid lines, tick marks, and tick spacing for all map types.
- Independent scaling for X, Y, and Z (if applicable) dimensions.
- Rotate and 3D tilt all map types and images, using either orthographic or perspective projections.
- Reload grid and data files for all maps.
- Display map scale bars for all map types.
- Stack and add most combinations of maps.
- Display XYZ coordinates in status bar.
- Solid color transparency for fills and images.
- Drag map layers into and out of maps.
- Save and load color spectrum files.
Contour Maps- Custom or automatic contour intervals.
- Control contour label frequency and spacing.
- Apply color and fill patterns.
- Save and load contour level properties.
- Add color scale legends.
- Display fault lines with custom line styles.
- Export contours in 3D DXF and 3D SHP format.
3D Wireframe Maps- Apply custom or automatic color zones.
- Display lines of constant X, Y, and Z.
- Use custom or automatic Z levels.
Surface Maps- Control the color, lighting, mesh, base, and overlay blending.
- Effortlessly layer external images on surface maps.
Post Maps- Post proportional or fixed size symbols.
- Add labels from a data file.
- Specify the position, label, symbol, and rotation angle for each posted point.
- Post all points from a worksheet column or post every nth point.
- Create classed post maps that show different symbols for different ranges of data.
- Save and load classes for classed post maps.
- Create a classed post map legend.
- Move individual labels on post map with mouse.
Shaded Relief Maps- Control light position angles.
- Set relief parameters such as gradient and shading methods.
- Specify how colors are mapped to the
reflectance and specify color for missing data.
Image Maps- C reate continuous solid color image maps.
- Dither bitmaps or interpolate pixels.
Vector Maps- Create vector maps from one or two grid files.
- Define symbol style, color, and frequency.
- Symbol color may be fixed, based on vector magnitude or the values of an arbitrary grid.
- Display color scale and vector scaling legends.
- Scale the arrow shaft length, head length, and symbol width based on minimum and
maximum data values. - Control vector orientation, symbol origin, and choose from linear, logarithmic, or square root scaling methods.
Base Maps- Import base maps in several formats:
AN?, BLN, BMP, BNA, BW, DCM, DIC,
DDF, DLG, DXF, E00, ECW, EMF, GIF, GSB,
GSI, JPEG, JPG, LGO, LGS, MIF, PCX, PLT,
PLY, PNG, PNM/PPM/PGM/PBM, RAS,
RGB, RGBA, SHP, SID, SUN, TGA, TIF,
TIFF, VTK, WMF, X, and XIMG. - Efficiently and effectively access and edit all map components.
- Calculate length and area for polylines and polygons in base maps.
- Specify the image coordinate system.
- Edit line, fill, text, and symbol attributes for vector maps.
- Import georeferenced image files in their real world coordinates.
Grid Utilities- Interactively edit nodes in the grid node editor.
- Blank specified regions of the grid.
- Compute grid volumes, surface areas, cross sections, and residuals.
- Use spline smoothing utilities.
- Use on-screen digitizing to view and save your coordinates.
- Convert binary grids to ASCII grids or ASCII data files.
- Combine multiple grid files to form a single grid file.
- Filter grids using many pre-defined filters or define your own filter.
- Grid formats include: ADF, AM, AN?,
ASI, BIL, BIN, BIP, BMP, BSQ, BW, COL,
CPS-3, DAT, DCM, DDF, DEM, DIC, DOS,
DT?, ECW, ERS, FLD, FLT, GIF, GRD, GXF,
HDF, HDR, IMG, INFO, JPEG, JPG, LAT,
PCX, PNG, PNM/PPM/PGM/PBM, RAS,
RAW, RGB, RGBA, RST, SID, STK, SUN,
TGA, TIF, TIFF, VTK, X, XIMG, ZMAP, and
?10g.
Gridding Methods- Specify faults and breaklines during gridding.
- Create grids with up to 32,767 nodes in either direction.
- Choose between twelve different gridding methods, including Kriging.
- Apply a generic data exclusion filter for eliminating unwanted data.
- Use powerful duplicate data resolution techniques.
- Use Cross Validate to assess the quality of the selected gridding method.
- Create custom variogram models.
- Generate a report of the gridding statistics and parameters.
- Apply anisotropy ratios and angles for most gridding methods.
- Generate grids from a user specified function of two variables.
Grid Calculus- Take first or second order directional derivatives.
- Use terrain modeling to analyze terrain slope, terrain aspect, profile curvature, plan curvature, and tangential curvature.
- Apply differential and integral operations including gradient, Laplacian, biharmonic, and integrated volume.
- Apply Fourier and spectral analysis to generate a grid correlogram or periodogram.
Variography- Display both the experimental variogram and the variogram model.
- Specify the estimator type as a variogram, standardized variogram, auto covariance,
or auto correlation. - Specify twelve different variogram model components.
- Combine multiple variogram components into complex nested models.
- Use the AutoFit feature to define the parameters of selected components.
- Customize the variogram to display symbols, variance, and number of pairs for each lag.
- Export the experimental variogram data for plotting in other graphing programs.
Drawing Tools- Drawing tools include text, lines, arrows, polygons, rectangles, ellipses, and symbols.
- Rotate, move, scale, and color all components of a map. Combine or break apart groups of items.
- Align any map component horizontally and vertically.
- Math Text system supports superscripts, subscripts, math and Greek symbols.
- Use the reshape tool to edit areas and curves.
ActiveX Automation- Automate repetitive tasks with scripts.
- Use Visual Basic, C++, Perl, or any ActiveX Automation compatible programming language.
- Includes Scripter, a VB compatible scripting program to automate Surfer.
Worksheet- Import formats include: BLN, BNA, CSV, DAT, DBF, MDB, SLK, TXT, WKx, WRx, XLS, and XLSX.
- Import data from any database directly into the Surfer worksheet.
- Data file size up to one billion rows and columns.
- Calculate data statistics.
- Sort data based on columns.
- Transform data using user defined or built-in equations.
- Assign multiple projections to your data.
- Apply spatial filters.
- Save your data in BLN, BNA, CSV, DAT, SLK, TXT, and XLS formats.
- Find/Replace in worksheet.
Export Formats- BLN, BMP, BNA, BW, CGM, 3D DXF, DXF,
EMF, EPS, GIF, GSB, JPEG, JPG, MIF, PCX,
PDF Raster, PDF Vector, PNG,
PNM/PPM/PGM/PBM, RAS, RGB, RGBA,
3D SHP, SHP, SUN, TGA,
