Surfer 10.0
The LATEST release of this very powerful contouring and 3D surface mapping application.
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Summary
Surfer is a contouring and 3D surface mapping program that runs under Microsoft Windows. It quickly and easily converts your data into outstanding contour, surface, wireframe, vector, image, shaded relief, and post maps. Virtually all aspects of your maps can be customized to produce exactly the presentation you want. Producing publication quality maps has never been quicker or easier.
Surfer is one of the most widely used applications of its type worldwide and has consistently been the most purchased of GeoMEM products since 1987.
You can download a demo version of Surfer from here.
Surfer also allows automation for repetitive operations thus saving time and avoiding errors.
Other GeoMEM services specific to Golden Software products are listed here.
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Contour Maps
Surfer contour maps give you full control over all map parameters. You can accept the Surfer intelligent defaults to automatically create a contour map, or double-click a map to easily customize map features. Display contour maps over any contour range and contour interval, or specify only the contour levels you want to display on the map. And with Surfer you can add colour fill between contours to produce dazzling displays of your maps, or produce gray scale fills for dramatic black and white printouts.
- Automatic or user-defined contour intervals and ranges
- Full control over contour label format, font, frequency, placement, and spacing
- Drag contour labels to place them exactly where you want them
- Automatic or user-defined colour for contour lines
- colour fill between contours, either user-specified or as an automatic spectrum of your choice
- Save and retrieve custom line styles and fills for contour maps
- Full control over hachures
- Regulate smoothing of contour lines
- Reshape contour lines
- Blank contour lines in areas where you don't want to show any data
- Specify colour for blanked region
- Rotate and tilt contour maps to any angle
- Add colour scale or distance scale bars
- Independently scale in the X and Y dimensions
- Full control over axis tick labels, tick spacing, grid lines and titles
- Create any number of contour maps on a page
- Print maps in black-and-white or full colour
- Overlay base, vector, shaded relief, image, or post maps on contour maps
- Drape contour maps over 3D surfaces for dramatic displays
- Export contours in 3D DXF format
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3D Surface Maps
The 3D surface map uses shading and colour to emphasize your data features. Change the lighting, display angle and tilt with a click of the mouse. Overlay several surface maps to generate informative block diagrams.
- Specify surface colour gradation, shininess, base fill and line colour
- Control mesh line frequency, colour, style, surface offset
- Set lighting horizontal and vertical angles, ambient, diffuse, and specular properties
- Overlay contour maps, image maps, post maps, shaded relief maps, raster and vector base maps, and other surface maps for spectacular presentations
- Choose overlay resample method and resolution, colour modulation (blending) of surface and overlays
- Change View tilt, rotation, field of view angles, perspective or orthographic projection
- Set XYZ scales in map units or page length, choose proportional or independent XY scaling
- Use data XY limits or specify a subset of the map
- Control background fill and line colour and styles
- Add colour scales to explain the data values corresponding to each colour
- Disable the display of blanked grid nodes or map the blanked areas to a specific Z level
- Produce a detailed report of the grid statistics
- Substitute a new grid file into an existing map
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3D Wireframe Maps
Surfer wireframe maps provide an impressive three dimensional display of your data. Use colour zones, independent X,Y,Z scaling, orthographic or perspective projections at any tilt or rotation angle, and different combinations of X, Y and Z lines to produce exactly the surface you want. Drape a colour-filled contour map over a wireframe map to create the most striking colour or black-and-white representations of your data. The possibilities are endless.
- Display any combination of X,Y, and Z lines
- Use automatic or user-defined colour zones to highlight different Z levels
- Stack any number of 3D surfaces on a single page
- Optional hidden line removal
- Overlay any combination of contour, filled contour, base, post, and classed post maps on a surface
- Views of the top or bottom of the surface, or both
- Proportional or independent scaling in the X,Y, and Z dimensions
- Full control over axis tick marks and tick labels
- Add a base with optional vertical base lines
- Display the surface at any rotation or tilt angle
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Vector Maps
Instantly create vector maps in Surfer to show direction and magnitude of data at points on a map. You can create vector maps from information in one grid or two separate grids. The two components of the vector map, direction and magnitude, are automatically generated from a single grid by computing the gradient of the represented surface.
Surfer wireframe maps provide an impressive three dimensional display of your data. Use colour zones, independent X,Y,Z scaling, orthographic or perspective projections at any tilt or rotation angle, and different combinations of X, Y and Z lines to produce exactly the surface you want. Drape a colour-filled contour map over a wireframe map to create the most striking colour or black-and-white representations of your data. The possibilities are endless.
At any given grid node, the direction of the arrow points in the direction of the steepest descent. The magnitude of the arrow changes depending on the steepness of the descent. Two-grid vector maps use two separate grid files to determine the vector direction and magnitude. The grids can contain Cartesian or polar data. With Cartesian data, one grid consists of X component data and the other grid consists of Y component data. With polar data, one grid consists of angle information and the other grid contains length information. Overlay vector maps on contour or wireframe maps to enhance the presentation!
- Define arrow style, colour, and frequency
- Symbol colour may be fixed or based on vector magnitude
- Display map scales, colour scale bars, and vector scale legends
- Scale the arrow shaft length, head length, and width
- Control vector symbol origin
- Choose from linear, logarithmic, or square root scaling methods
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Image Maps
Surfer image maps use different colours to represent elevations of a grid file. Create image maps using any grid file format: GRD, DEM, SDTS DDF, GTOP30 HDR.
Surfer automatically blends colours between percentage values so you end up with a smooth colour gradation over the map. You can add colour anchors at any percentage point between 0 and 100. Each anchor point can be assigned a unique colour, and the colours are automatically blended between adjacent anchor points. This allows you to create colour maps using any combination of colours. Any colour fill you choose for an image map can be used with any other image map, even if the associated grid files cover distinctly different Z ranges. Image maps can be created independently of other maps, or can be combined with other maps. They can be scaled, resized, limited and moved.
- Pixel maps or smoothed images
- Dither bitmaps if needed
- Create an associated colour scale
- Create custom colour spectrum files for use on any image or shaded relief map
- Overlay image maps with contour, post, or base maps
- Data-independent colour spectrum files
- Specify colour for missing data
- Change the rotation and tilt angles
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Shaded Relief Maps
Surfer Shaded Relief maps create a shaded relief map from a grid [.GRD] file or USGS DEM file. These maps use different colours to indicate surface slope and slope direction relative to a user-defined light source direction. Surfer determines the orientation of each grid cell on the surface, and assigns a unique colour to each grid cell. colours on shaded relief maps are associated with light striking the surface.
The light source can be thought of as the sun shining on a topographic surface. Surfer automatically blends colours between percentage values so you end up with a smooth colour gradation over the map.
You can add colour anchors so each anchor point can be assigned a unique colour, and the colours are automatically blended between adjacent anchor points. This allows you to create colour maps using any combination of colours.
Shaded relief maps can be created independently of other maps, or can be combined with other maps in map overlays (using the Overlay Maps command). Shaded Relief maps can be scaled, resized, limited, and moved in the same way as other types of maps.
- Create photo-quality relief maps from grid files
- Control light source position, relative slope gradient, and shading
- Use custom colour spectrum files for the exact desired display
- Overlay with contour, vector, post, or base maps for highly effective displays
- Shading calculations based on several shading methods, including Simple, Peucker's Approximation, Lambertian Reflection, and Lommel-Seeliger Law
- Set relief parameters using Central Difference or Midpoint difference gradient methods
- Specify colour for missing data
- Change the rotation and tilt angles.
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Post Maps
Post maps show X,Y locations with fixed size symbols or proportionally scaled symbols of any colour. Create post maps independent of other maps on the page, or overlay the posted points on a base, contour, vector, or surface map. For each posted point, specify the symbol and label type, size, and angle. Also create classed post maps that identify different ranges of data by automatically assigning a different symbol or colour to each data range. Post your original data point locations on a contour map to show the distribution of data points on the map, and to demonstrate the accuracy of the gridding methods you use.
- Create any number of post maps on a single page
- Post from any number of files
- Use proportional or fixed size symbols
- Full control of symbol style, colour, and frequency
- Post data on contour, vector, surface, or base maps
- Post every point or every nth point
- Rotate and tilt post maps to any angle
- Make a Classed Post Map to post different symbols for specified ranges of data values
- Create a classed post legend to display the symbols and data ranges
- Specify custom symbols from the worksheet
- Add labels from a data file and adjust the angle of the label and the plane in which the label appears
- Change data files without resetting post map and classed post map parameters
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Base Maps
Surfer can import maps in many different formats to display geographic information. You can combine base maps with other maps in map overlays, or can create stand-alone base maps independent of other maps on the page. You can load any number of base maps on a page. Base maps can be imported from DXF, GSI, BLN, SHP, LGO, BNA, GSB, DLG, LGS, MIF, E00, USGS SDTS DLG DDF, EMF, WMF, TIF, PCX, BMP, PLT, CLP, TGA, PCX, JPG, PNG, DCX, WPG, PCT, and other formats. It is easy to overlay a base map on a contour or surface wireframe map, allowing you to display geographic information in combination with the three dimensional data.
- Create any number of base maps on a single page
- Create independent base maps or overlay base maps on other map types
- Edit line, fill, text, and symbol properties for vector base map formats
- Specify real-world coordinates for TIF, JPG, GIF, and other raster files
- Independent scaling in the X and Y dimensions
- Rotate and tilt base maps to any angle
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Map Overlays
Map overlays give you a way to combine any number of contour, wireframe, vector, base, and post maps. Draping a filled contour map over a wireframe map produces the most striking display of 3D data possible. And because you can overlay any number of maps, you can show any amount of data on a single map.
Variograms
Use the variogram modeling subsystem to quantitatively assess the spatial continuity of data. Variograms may be used to select an appropriate variogram model when gridding with the Kriging algorithm. Surfer uses a variogram grid as a fundamental internal data representation and once this grid is built, any experimental variogram can be computed instantaneously.
- Virtually unlimited data set sizes
- Display both the experimental variogram and the variogram model
- Specify the estimator type: variogram, standardized variogram, auto covariance, or auto correlation
- Specify the variogram model components: exponential, Gaussian, linear, logarithmic, nugget effect, power, quadratic, rational quadratic, spherical, wave, pentaspherical, and cubic models
- Customize the variogram to display symbols, variance, and number of pairs for each lag
- Export the experimental variogram data
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Faults and Breaklines
Define faults and breaklines when gridding your data. The data on one side of the fault will not be directly used to calculate grid node values on the other side of the fault. When the gridding algorithm sees a breakline, any data points that lie directly on the breakline take precedence over an interpolated value. Use breaklines to define streamlines, ridges, and other breaks in slopes. Unlike faults, breaklines are not barriers to information flow and the gridding algorithm can cross the breakline to use a point on the other side. The gridding methods that support faults are: Inverse Distance to a Power, Minimum Curvature, Nearest Neighbor, and Data Metrics. Breaklines are supported by: Inverse Distance to a Power, Kriging, Minimum Curvature, Nearest Neighbor, Radial Basis Function, Moving Average, Data Metrics, and Local Polynomial gridding methods.
Pricing
| Standard prices | Ex. VAT | Inc. VAT | |
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| Surfer: Single licence | £468.00 | £561.60 | |
| UPGRADE from any previous version | £170.00 | £204.00 | |
| Surfer + Didger | £701.10 | £841.32 | |
| Surfer + Grapher | £677.35 | £812.82 | |
| Surfer + MapViewer | £616.55 | £739.86 | |
| Surfer INTRODUCTORY 1 day course: 1 person | £350.00 | £420.00 | |
| Surfer INTRODUCTORY 1 day course: 2-4 people | £425.00 | £510.00 | |
| Surfer AUTOMATION 1 day course: 1 person | £400.00 | £480.00 | |
| Surfer AUTOMATION 1 day course: 2-4 people | £500.00 | £600.00 | |
| Educational / Academic prices | Ex. VAT | Inc. VAT | |
| Surfer: Single licence | £444.60 | £533.52 | |
| UPGRADE from any previous version | £170.00 | £204.00 | |
| Surfer INTRODUCTORY 1 day course: 1 person | £350.00 | £420.00 | |
| Surfer INTRODUCTORY 1 day course: 2-4 people | £425.00 | £510.00 | |
| Surfer AUTOMATION 1 day course: 1 person | £400.00 | £480.00 | |
| Surfer AUTOMATION 1 day course: 2-4 people | £500.00 | £600.00 |