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Version 11 A Powerful Contouring, Gridding, and Surface Mapping
Package for Scientists and Engineers
Free technical support in German and English from the HarbourDom team!
Surfer 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, base, 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!
The possibilities are limited only by your
imagination! Customize your maps so they look their best! Each of Surfer’s
ten map types has numerous 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. Assign a coordinate system for each map layer
and specify the coordinate system for your map to display. 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!
Surfer lets you massage your data in many ways to
achieve the exact output you want. Surfer includes a fullfeatured
worksheet for creating, opening, editing, and saving data files. Data
files can be up to one billion rows
and columns! You can cut, copy, and paste data within the Surfer worksheet
or between applications, and you
can use Surfer’s find or find/replace commands to search for and replace
data. Sort your data on a specified
column, transform data with equations, filter data with specified rules,
and calculate statistics on your data! You
can also assign a projection to your data and reproject the coordinates to
a new projection or coordinate system!
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Automation
Create your own scripts to automate
repetitive tasks! Don’t spend time
doing the same process over and over again – write a script to simplify
your life! Operations performed interactively can be controlled using an
automationcompatible
programming language such
as Visual Basic, C++, or Perl. Surfer
includes Scripter, a built-in Visual Basic compatible programming
environment that lets you write, edit, debug, and run scripts. Why do
more work than you need when you have Surfer working for you! |
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! |
Grid functions
A variety of functions can be performed on
Surfer’s grid files. 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. You can also 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 from a grid file. The options are limitless! |
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User Friendly
•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
•Edit all map and plot features and see the changes
immediately
•Detailed and informative reports
•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
•32-bit and 64-bit installation
•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
•Display map scale bars for all map types
•Stack and add most combinations of maps
•Display XYZ coordinates in status bar for selected map
or layer
•Full-spectrum color transparency for fills and images
•Overlay maps by dragging map layers
•Save and load color spectrum files
•Set the projection for all maps
•Interactively retrieve XYZ coordinates from any map
•Extract and save data files from post or classed
post maps
•Extract and save grid 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, XYZ TXT, 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
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, specify beginning and ending rows, or
post every nth point from a worksheet column
•Save and load classes for classed post maps
•Create a classed post map legend
•Move individual labels on post map with the mouse
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Image Maps
•Create continuous solid color image maps
•Interpolate pixels for a smooth image
Vector Maps
•Create vector maps from one or two grid files
•Define symbol style, color, and frequency
•Vector symbol color may be 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
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 the color for missing data
Base Maps
•Import base maps in several formats:
AN1, AN2, 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
•Edit line, fill, text, and symbol attributes
•Calculate length and area for polylines and polygons in
base maps
•Specify the real world coordinates for images
•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
•Convert grids from one format into any other format
•Combine multiple grid files to form a single grid file
•Filter grids using many pre-defined filters or define your
own filter
•Perform any math operation on any number of grid files
•Obtain information about a grid file, including minimum
and maximum values and statistics
•Assign a coordinate system to a grid, and save the
information to an external file
•Apply calculus functions to grid files, such as taking the
first or second order directional derivatives, using terrain
modeling, applying differential and integral operations,
or applying Fourier and spectral analyses
•Open grid files in these formats:
ADF, AIG, AGR, AM, AN1, AN2, ASC, ASI, BIL, BIN, BIP,
BMP, BSQ, BW, COL, CPS, CPS-3, DAT, DCM, DDF,
DEM, DIC, DOS, DT?, ECW, ERS, FLD, FLT, GGF, 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, XYZ, ZMAP, ZYC, ZYCOR, and ?10g
•Save grid files in these formats:
ADF, AGR, AIG, AM, ASC, BIL, BIN, BIP, BSQ, COL,
DAT, DEM, ERS, FLD, FLT, GGF, GRD, GXF, HDF,
IMG, LAT, RAW, and VTK
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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
Variograms
•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
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
Drawing Tools
•Drawing tools include text, lines, arrows, curved lines,
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
Worksheet
•Import data formats include:
ACCDB, 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
•Apply spatial filters
•Find/Replace in worksheet
•Convert the coordinate system for data directly in the
worksheet
•Assign a coordinate system to data, and save the
information to an external file
•Save your data in these formats:
BLN, BNA, CSV, DAT, SLK, TXT, and XLS
Export Formats
•BLN, BMP, BNA, BW, CGM, 3D DXF, DXF, EMF, EPS,
GIF, GSB, JPEG, JPG, KML, KMZ, MIF, PCX, PDF
Raster, PDF Vector, PNG, PNM, RAS, RGB, RGBA, 3D
SHP, SHP, SUN, TGA, TIF, TIFF, WMF, X, XIMG, and
XYZ TXT
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New in Surfer 11:
Create Watershed Maps
Watershed maps automatically calculate and display drainage basins and
streams from your grid file. Create colorful watershed maps to display
regions draining into a stream, stream system or body of water. Display
the catchment basins, streams, or both!
Include Feature Attributes
Keeping your data organized and labeled has never been easier. Surfer 11
supports attributes for all objects. For example, import your SHP file and
the attributes from the DBF are imported for all features within the SHP!
Label the features with the attributes, edit the attribute data, or export
the features with the attributes to a new file.
Use the Text Editor
Save time formatting your text with the easy-to-use Text Editor! Formatting
a few specific characters in a text string, subscripting and superscripting,
and inserting equations has never been easier.
Create Automatic Profiles
Surfer's automatic profile tool makes it easy to visualize the change in Z
value from one point to another. Reshape the profile line on the map and the
profile immediately updates!
Perform Advanced Boundary Editing
Create boundaries just the way you need them! Surfer’s new boundary editing
tools make it easy to edit your boundaries so that you have what you need to
display your data most effectively. Convert between polylines and polygons.
Connect polylines together to simplify your objects, or break polylines to
trim them. Combine polygons into a complex polygon so that they are grouped
together and have the same fill (especially useful if trying to blank
outside multiple polygons), or split a complex polygon into separate
polygons for editing individual areas.
Measure Distances and Areas
With the new measure tool, you simply start drawing and the length and area
are automatically calculated and displayed! Copy the information from the
Measure box to paste into Excel or include as text in your Surfer project.
Grid Only Inside Your Data Limits
Automatically blank the data outside the perimeter of your data points
during gridding. Simply check the Blank grid outside convex hull of data
check box in the Grid Data dialog box, and Surfer does the rest for you!
Use the Grid Node Editor Enhancements
The Grid Node Editor is more powerful than ever! Zoom in and out using the
tools on the toolbar, and display Z values on the grid nodes when zoomed
in. Enable cursor tracking, click on a node in the grid node editor window
and see the same location highlighted on the map in the plot window!
Lock Your Objects
Once you get your Surfer project just the way you want it on the page,
lock the position of the objects so you don’t accidentally move them!
Increased File Compatibility!
Newly supported import formats:
- Open data in LiDAR LAS format.
- Open grids in E00 and GRIB formats.
- Open grids in zipped SDTS files directly, TAR and
TAR.GZ formats.
- Import GPX files as base maps.
Newly supported or enhanced export formats:
- Save data in XLSX format.
- Save grids in CPS-3 or ZMAP formats.
- Export to a GeoPDF.
- Exporting to a PDF now supports partial
transparency and page sizes.
- Turning off the axes won’t create extra white space
around the map after exporting to image file! You don’t have to turn off
tick marks/labels before export to image anymore.
New Coordinate Systems, Projections and Datums
New Coordinate Systems:
- State Plane 1983 - Kentucky Single Zone
- New Zealand Map Grid
- New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 (NZTM 2000)
- Irish National Grid
- Italy Mainland Zone 1 Gauss-Boaga
- Italy Mainland Zone 2 Gauss-Boaga
- Sardinia – Gauss-Boaga
- Sicily – Gauss-Boaga
- Switzerland - CH1903 LV03
- Switzerland – CH1903+LV95
- JGD2000 / Japan Plane Rectangular
- JGD2000 / UTM
New Projections:
- New Zealand Map Grid
- Updated Hotine Oblique Mercator
- Updated Hotine Oblique Mercator 2-Point
New Datums:
- Rome 1940 - Italian Peninsula (Greenwich Meridian)
- Rome 1940 - Sardinia (Greenwich Meridian)
- Rome 1940 - Sicily (Greenwich Meridian)
- New Zealand Geodetic Datum 1949 (Bursa-Wolf)
- New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000)
- CH1903 – Switzerland (Bursa-Wolf)
- CH1903+ - Switzerland
- ITRF90 (Bursa-Wolf)
- ITRF94 (WGS84 base)
- Japan Geodetic Datum JGD2000 (WGS84 base)
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