Surfer · 2020. 12. 11. · • Mudlogging • Oil & Gas • Renewable Energy • UAV / UAS •...

Transforming data into knowledge.

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Exceeding Expectations

“Surfer is by far the best product I have ever used. I gave a presentation of Surfer’s capabilities to fellow co-workers and got a standing ovation. It sells itself.”Barry DuncanSenior Associate GeologistSYNCRUDE CANADA LTD.

“Surfer is so useful. I don’t understand why every earth scientist of all varieties doesn’t use it. To me it’s as important as my Excel® sheet.”James MoffattPrincipal GeoscientistTULLOW OIL

Powerful contouring, gridding & surface mapping software

Propelling You to New Levels of Productivity

You do important work! You solve big problems, find solutions that influence the world, challenge the status quo, and you keep the lights on. Don’t settle for subpar visualizations. Unleash your data’s potential with Surfer’s extensive 2D and 3D mapping, modeling, and analysis features. Whether you’re a geologist, geophysicist, environmental engineer, archaeologist, researcher, or someone who simply loves data, use Surfer to clearly communicate your message to coworkers, clients, and stakeholders. Keep doing your important work, and let Keep doing your important work, and let Surfer help you communicate your important message to Surfer help you communicate your important message to the world.the world.

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Surfer® Powerful contouring, gridding & surface mapping software

Play Impress your peers with professional maps and models quickly and confidently. Fine tune contour lines and surfaces, adjust colors, fonts, and sizes for practically all elements of your map. Experience your data like never before by walking along the surface or recording a fly-through video in the 3D view. Your Surfer maps and models will make a lasting impression.

Popular File Formats• BLN• SHP• JPG/TIF/PNG• DXF• GSB• KML/KMZ• PDF/3D PDF

Explore Gain meaningful insight into your data. Run statistical reports, create variogram models, experiment with interpolation methods, and conduct modeling and analysis to the underlying data. Surfer provides numerous tools so you can gain a better understanding of your data.

• Mining• Mudlogging• Oil & Gas• Renewable Energy• UAV / UAS• Utilities• Water Resources

• Geophysical• Geotechnical• Geothermal• GIS• Government• Maritime• Military

• Agriculture• Architecture• Construction• Energy• Engineering• Environmental• Exploration

Surfer is actively used in the following industries:TrustSince 1986, tens of thousands of users have relied on Surfer’s ever-evolving features to better understand and display their XYZ data. Additionally, Golden Software’s unrivaled customer support team is here to help you through ever step of your data transformation journey.

Top Features• Create 13 different map types• View data in true 3D space• Process and visualize LiDAR• Interpolate data with 15 different methods, including CoKriging

• Edit contours• Customize virtually every component of the map

• Automate repetitive or recurring tasks

Create The possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Transform data into fully-customizable 2D and 3D maps and models. Create and combine layers such as contour, base, post, 3D surface, color relief, LiDAR point cloud, and many more. Enhance the display with annotations, scales, graticules, grids, and legends. Virtually all aspects of the map are customizable, so you can create precise and accurate maps, every time.



Overview

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

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

Image courtesy of Alain Paillou, Amateur Astronomer

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



Features

• View point data in true 3D space• Rotate your map• Walk along the surface• Adjust the vertical exaggeration• Add X, Y or Z axes to gain a frame of reference• Note the X, Y or Z position of the cursor in the status bar

• Create and record fly-through videos to share with others

Achieve a 360⁰ Perspective

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.

• 1-Grid Vector• 2-Grid Vector• Watershed• Grid Value • Viewshed• Point Cloud

• Contour• Base• Post• 3D Surface • Color Relief• Classed Post• 3D Wireframe

Surfer Map Types

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

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.



• 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's LAS/LAZ Filtering Options

• 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 3D

• Create a point cloud from multiple LAS/LAZ files• Assign color by elevation, intensity, return number, or classification

• Select points interactively or by criteria

Surfer's LiDAR Point Cloud Features

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.



• 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…

• 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 the data and maps

Surfer Customization Options

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.

• Contents window to easily manage layers of maps and models

• Properties window for quick feature editing

• Worksheet window to view or edit raw data

• 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

Surfer's User Interface Features

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.



• Warp contour lines• Erase parts of the contour map

• Find the Z value at any XY point location

• Perform free-hand contour editing

• Brush specific Z values across nodes

• Smooth contours• Pull up or push down contours in specific areas to view, edit, and manipulate the data and maps

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.

• 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

• 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 "no data"

Surfer Grid Features

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.



• Duplicate handling• Cross validation• Control over output geometry and resolution

• Limit or clamp z-values

• Data filtering• Automatic data statistics• Create grid files directly from contour polylines

• Grid to convex hull

• Variogram models• Anisotropy• Kriging with external drift• Faults and breaklines• Control over search neighborhood size, shape, and constraints

Surfer Interpolation Features

• Local Polynomial• Polynomial Regression

• Data Metrics• Radial Basis Function• Modified Shepard's Method

• Moving Average

• Kriging• CoKriging• Inverse Distance• Minimum Curvature• Natural Neighbor• Triangulation with Linear Interpolation

• Nearest Neighbor

Surfer Gridding Methods

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!



• 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 Symbology

• 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

• View, create, edit and delete object attributes using the convenient Attribute Table

• Calculate attribute values• Query objects based on attribute values

• Perform Delaunay triangulation

• Reshape, simplify, smooth polylines, polygons, and grids

Surfer Geoprocessing Tools

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.



• 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

• Over 2500 predefined coordinate systems

• Create custom coordinate systems

• Search coordinate systems by name or EPSG number

• Reproject coordinate systems

Surfer Coordinate System Features

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.

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

Supported server types:

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.



Work Smart, Not Hard with Automation Don’t waste time doing the same process over and over. Create scripts to automate repetitive or recurring tasks. Surfer can be called from any automation-compatible programming languages such as C , Python, or Perl. Surfer also ships with Scripter, a built-in Visual Basic compatible scripting tool.

Save time with automation, and save even more time by reviewing the extensive set of sample scripts in the Surfer Automation Knowledge Base!

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.

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.

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.
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