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Welcome to Surfer, a powerful contouring, gridding, and surface mapping package for scientists, engineers, educators, or anyone who needs to generate maps quickly and easily. Producing publication quality maps has never been quicker or easier. Maps can be displayed and enhanced in Surfer. Adding multiple map layers, customizing the map display, and annotating with text create publication quality maps. Virtually all aspects of your maps can be customized to produce exactly the presentation you want.
Surfer is a grid-based mapping program that interpolates irregularly spaced XYZ data into a regularly spaced grid. Grids may also be imported from other sources, such as the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The grid is used to produce different types of maps including contour, vector, image, shaded relief, 3D surface, and 3D wireframe maps.
Many gridding and mapping options are available allowing you to produce the map that best represents your data. An extensive suite of gridding methods is available in Surfer.
The variety of available methods provides different interpretations of your data, and allows you to choose the most appropriate method for your needs. In addition, data metrics allow you to gather information about your gridded data.
Surface area, projected planar area, and volumetric calculations can be performed quickly in Surfer. Cross-sectional profiles can also be computed and exported. The grid files themselves can be edited, combined, filtered, sliced, queried, and mathematically transformed. For example, you can create an isopach map from two grid files. You will need the original surface grid file and the surface grid file after a volume of material was removed. Subtract the two surfaces to create an isopach map. The resulting map displays how much material has been removed in all areas.
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for Surfer are:
1. Windows XP SP2 or higher, Vista, 7 or higher
2. 512MB RAM minimum for simple data sets, 1GB RAM recommended
3. At least 100MB free hard disk space
4. 1024x768 or higher monitor resolution with a minimum 16-bit color depth
Surfer is a grid-based mapping program that interpolates irregularly spaced XYZ data into a regularly spaced grid. Grids may also be imported from other sources, such as the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The grid is used to produce different types of maps including contour, vector, image, shaded relief, 3D surface, and 3D wireframe maps.
Many gridding and mapping options are available allowing you to produce the map that best represents your data. An extensive suite of gridding methods is available in Surfer.
The variety of available methods provides different interpretations of your data, and allows you to choose the most appropriate method for your needs. In addition, data metrics allow you to gather information about your gridded data.
Surface area, projected planar area, and volumetric calculations can be performed quickly in Surfer. Cross-sectional profiles can also be computed and exported. The grid files themselves can be edited, combined, filtered, sliced, queried, and mathematically transformed. For example, you can create an isopach map from two grid files. You will need the original surface grid file and the surface grid file after a volume of material was removed. Subtract the two surfaces to create an isopach map. The resulting map displays how much material has been removed in all areas.
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for Surfer are:
1. Windows XP SP2 or higher, Vista, 7 or higher
2. 512MB RAM minimum for simple data sets, 1GB RAM recommended
3. At least 100MB free hard disk space
4. 1024x768 or higher monitor resolution with a minimum 16-bit color depth