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Surfer is a full-function 3D visualization, contouring and surface modeling package that runs under Microsoft Windows. Surfer is used extensively for terrain modeling, bathymetric modeling, landscape visualization, surface analysis, contour mapping, watershed and 3D surface mapping, gridding, volumetrics, and much more.

Surfer’s sophisticated interpolation engine transforms your XYZ data into publication-quality maps. Surfer provides more gridding methods and more control over gridding parameters, including customized variograms, than any other software package on the market. You can also use grid files obtained from other sources, such as USGS DEM files or ESRI grid files. Display your grid as outstanding contour, 3D surface, 3D wireframe, watershed, vector, image, shaded relief, and post maps. Add base maps and combine map types to create the most informative display possible. Virtually all aspects of your maps can be customized to produce exactly the presentation you want. Generating publication quality maps has never been quicker or easier.

Visualize Data

You work hard gathering your data. Don’t settle for subpar visualization. Utilize Surfer’s extensive modeling tools to display your data the way it deserves while maintaining accuracy and precision. Clearly communicate information with Surfer.

Surfer appears to have been designed by people who really understand what scientists like myself want to do. This allows me to look at data and ask questions without being concerned with the technicalities of how to load, manipulate and map data.

Barry Gardiner, Senior Scientist

 

Surfer 2D & 3D modeling and analysis software: 3D surface map of the moon

Image courtesy of Alain Paillou, Amateur Astronomer

 

 
 
Surfer 2D & 3D modeling and analysis software: Electrical Resistance Tomography map
 

Analyze Data

Discover the depths of your data with Surfer’s numerous analysis tools. Adjust interpolation and gridding parameters, assess the spatial continuity of data with variograms, define faults and breaklines, or perform grid calculations such as volumes, transformations, smoothing, or filtering. Surfer quickly transforms your data into knowledge.

The wide variety and functionality of the interpolation/extrapolation algorithms, as well as the geostatistical functionality, is simply awesome!

Grant van Heerden, Principal Coal Geologist
Snowden Mining Industry Consultants

 

 
 

Communicate Results

Communicate your hard-earned findings with confidence. Whether it is for your project manager, thesis advisor, or client, Surfer facilitates a complete and thorough understanding of data.

You make awesome products that give me the ability to present data in clear, concise, visually appealing ways to help my clients understand the concepts we are presenting.

Jeff Mattson

 

Surfer 2D & 3D modeling and analysis software: 3D surface map
 
 
 
Surfer 2D & 3D modeling and analysis software: Spontaneous Polarisation Contour map
 

Trusted Since 1983

Surfer has withstood the tests of time. See for yourself why thousands of scientists and engineers across the globe trust Surfer to display their data.

Surfer is actively used in the following industries:

 

  • Agriculture
  • Archaeology
  • Construction
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Environmental
  • Exploration
  • Geophysical
  • Geotechnical
  • Geothermal
  • GIS
  • Government
  • Maritime
  • Military
  • Mining
  • Mudlogging
  • Oil & Gas
  • Renewable Energy
  • UAV / UAS
  • Utilities
  • Water Resources
 
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System Requirements:

  • Windows 7, 8 (excluding RT), 10 or higher
  • 32-bit and 64-bit operation system support
  • 1024x768 or higher monitor resolution with minimum 16-bit color depth
  • At least 500 MB free hard disk space
  • At least 512 MB RAM

Create Professional Maps

Easily communicate both simple and complex spatial data. Surfer gives you the tools to create high-quality maps to clearly deliver your message to coworkers, clients, and stakeholders.

 

Surfer Map Types

Surfer 2D & 3D Modeling and Analysis Software: Contour map of temparature at 200 meters
 

Image courtesy of Igor Yashayaev, Bedrod Institute of Oceanography, Canada

 

Model Data in Multi-Dimensions

Gain deeper insights into your data when viewed in three-dimensional space. Surfer’s 3D viewer makes it easy to model, analyze, and understand all aspects of your data. Switching between Surfer’s 2D and 3D perspectives ensures you discover all of your data’s patterns and trends.

 

Achieve a 360⁰ Perspective

  • Rotate your map
  • Walk along the surface
  • Adjust the vertical exaggeration
  • Create and record fly-through videos to share with others
 
 
 

LiDAR Point Clouds

LiDAR is an increasingly popular data collection method used within many fields including archaeology, surveying, GIS, and more. Use Surfer’s extensive LiDAR processing and visualization features to take advantage of all that LiDAR has to offer.

 

Surfer's LiDAR Point Cloud Features

  • Create a point cloud from multiple LAS/LAZ files
  • Assign color by elevation, intensity, return number, or classification
  • Select points interactively or by criteria
  • Remove, reclassify or crop to selected points
  • Create a grid from the point cloud or export to LAS/LAZ
  • Visualize all aspects of the data in the 3D view

 

 

Surfer's LAS/LAZ Filtering Options

  • Spatial filtering based on XY bounds or elevation data limits
  • Import every Nth point
  • Import only the desired Return type or Classification values
  • Import data with specified Source ID
  • Flag filters such as scan direction, edge of flight, or synthetic, key, and withheld points
 
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis software: LiDAR point cloud of Golden, Colorado
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling & analysis software: LiDAR point cloud of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA
 
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling & analysis software: Surfer
 

Streamlined Workflows

You will be up and running in matter of minutes. Surfer’s user interface was designed to take the guesswork out of learning a new program. We worked hard to streamline workflows so you don’t have to.

 

Surfer User Interface Features

  • Welcome dialog to get you started
  • Map wizard to quickly create maps and models
  • Customize ribbon and quick access toolbar
  • Dock or float all windows
  • Single window to view, edit, and manipulate the data and maps
  • Contents window to easily manage layers of maps and models
  • Properties window for quick feature editing
  • Worksheet window to view or edit raw data
 
 
 

Enhance Maps & Models

Surfer gives you the tools to visualize and model all types of data, but it doesn’t stop there. Surfer’s extensive customization options allow you to convey complex ideas in an easy to understand manner. Enhance your maps and models with a variety of customizations options.

 

Surfer Customization Options

  • Add legends, cross sections, magnifiers, scale bars, and multiple axes
  • Include headers and footers
  • Apply linear or logarithmic color scales
  • Adjust tilt, rotation, and field of view angle
  • Edit all axis parameters
  • Include graticule lines or another grid
  • Combine or stack multiple maps
  • Define custom line styles and colors
  • Edit text, line, fill and symbol properties
  • Add text, polylines, polygons, symbols, and spline polylines
  • Include range rings
  • Many more…
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling and analysis software: Color map of elevation with a profile map
 
 
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis software: Use the extensive grid options to create detailed and informative maps
 

Full Grid Control

Surfer gives you extensive control over grid files. Create isopach maps for structural geology, calculate volumes for inventory management or derivatives for terrain analysis, and even create site suitability models all with grid files. Achieve a complete understanding of your underlying data.

 

Surfer Grid Features

  • Directly edit the underlying grid data
  • Calculate volume and area of grids
  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide grids
  • Perform custom mathematical functions on grids
  • Calculate differential and integral operations or Fourier and spectral analysis
  • Convert areas to nodata
  • Project grids from one coordinate system to another
  • Mosaic multiple grids together seamlessly
  • Transform, offset, rescale, rotate, or mirror grids
  • Filter grids with high- and low-pass filters
  • Extract smaller areas from a grid
  • Subtract the Z in the grid from the original Z
 
 
 

Edit Contours

Edit contour lines down to the finest detail. Surfer’s grid editor lets you quickly adjust contour lines by interactively editing the underlying grid file. Brush, warp, smooth, push down or up, and erase grid nodes, and immediately see the changes to your grid-based maps.

 

  • Perform free-hand contour editing
  • Brush specific Z values across nodes
  • Smooth contours
  • Pull up or push down contours in specific areas
  • Warp contour lines
  • Erase parts of the contour map
  • Find the Z value at any XY point location
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis software: Interactively edit contour lines with the grid editor
 
 
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling and analysis software: Contour and post map of earthquake magnitudes greater than 2.5
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis software: Interpolating airborne geophysical survey data is straightforward with Surfer

Grid Data with Certainty

Have complete confidence in the accuracy of your model. Surfer provides numerous interpolation methods to grid regularly or irregularly spaced data onto a grid or raster, and each interpolation method provides complete control over gridding parameters. Plus, no time is wasted with multithreaded gridding!

 

Surfer Gridding Methods

Surfer Interpolation Features

  • Variogram models
  • Anisotropy
  • Faults and breaklines
  • Control over search neighborhood size, shape, and constraints
  • Data filtering
  • Automatic data statistics
  • Create grid files directly from contour polylines
  • Grid to convex hull
  • Duplicate handling
  • Cross validation
  • Control over output geometry and resolution
  • Limit or clamp z-values
 
 
 

Make Meaningful Decisions

Get answers to your questions with Surfer’s geoprocessing tools. Process your data and analyze relationships. Narrow down areas of interest, highlight important intersections, or perform mathematical calculations on the underlying data to make informed decisions.

 

Surfer Geoprocessing Tools

  • View, create, edit and delete object attributes using the convenient Attribute Table
  • Perform Delaunay triangulation
  • Reshape, simplify, smooth polylines, polygons, and grids
  • Create buffers around points, polylines, and polygons
  • Convert between polygons and polylines
  • Create polygons by combining existing polygons
  • Create points or polygons in intersecting areas
  • Connect or break polylines at specified locations
  • Combine and split islands
  • Georeference images
 

Surfer Symbology

  • Apply line, fill, and symbol properties based on attribute values
  • Display symbology in the legend
  • Select symbology based on unique values, unclassed colors and symbols, and classed colors and symbols
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis software: Surfer offers many geoprocessing tools including buffers
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modelying, and analysis software: Apply symbology based on attribute values
 
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis software: Download maps and grids from any web mapping service
 

Immediate Access to Online Data

An abundance of data is at your fingertips waiting to be visualized. Surfer gives you immediate access to worldwide aerial imagery, Open Street Map imagery, worldwide vector data, and terrain data. If you have your own favorite data servers or access to a private data server, include a custom link to that source for easy access. Surfer makes it easy to access the surplus of online data.

Supported server types:

  • Web mapping server (WMS)
  • Open Street Map server (OSM)
  • Web coverage server (WCS)
  • Web feature server (WFS)

 

 
 

Work Seamlessly with all Coordinate Systems

Your job is to transform data into valuable visualizations. Surfer’s job is to make it easy for you. Surfer effortlessly manages unreferenced data and data projected in different/multiple coordinate systems. It really is that easy.

 

Surfer Coordinate System Features

  • Over 2500 predefined coordinate systems
  • Create custom coordinate systems
  • Search coordinate systems by name or EPSG number
  • Reproject coordinate systems
  • Over 80 ellipsoids
  • Over 45 predefined linear units
  • Create custom linear units
  • Add graticule or grid lines to view different coordinate systems on a map
 
Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis software: Pine beetle infestation map created with 10 different data sets in 5 different coordinate systems
 

Image courtesy of Eric Dickenson, Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines.

 

 
 
 
 

Complete Compatibility

Seamlessly visualize and analyze data from multiple sources. Surfer natively reads numerous file formats including SHP, DXF, and XLSX. Surfer also supports all popular export formats. An extensive set of data management tools are at your disposal for complete compatibility.

 

 
 

Collaborate with Confidence

Quickly share your work with colleagues, stakeholders, and clients. Surfer models are ready for printed publication with the high quality export formats including PDF or TIF. Alternatively, share your work online with web compatible formats like JPG or PNG. If you are preparing for a presentation, simply copy and paste your map or model into presentation tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Word.

 

Surfer 2D & 3D mapping, modeling and analysis software: Easily share your work with colleages, clients, and stakeholders
 

PDF snippet courtesy of Alecos Demetriades, Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration.
Demetriades, A., 2011. The Lavrion urban geochemistry study, Hellas. Chapter 25 In: C.C. Johnson, A. Demetriades, J. Locutura & R.T. Ottesen (Editors), Mapping the chemical environment of urban areas. Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, U.K., 424-456.