Convert surfer files to arcgis format

[Alexander Shenkin]

Hi Folks,

I want to convert surfer srf files to something that arcgis can read
(shp i assume). I don't have a copy of surfer on my computer. Is there
any way I can convert them to an arcgis-readable format?

Thanks!

[Duri]

I would have a look at GDAL (which is a command line tool), in
particular the gdal_translate (http://www.gdal.org/
gdal_translate.html) tool allows you to convert between many Raster
formats (http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html)

to get GDAL i would suggest getting OSGeo4W which is a set of tools
all packaged up for easy install (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/)

the command you will need will be something like "gdal_translate -of
AAIGrid unput.srf output.txt" with the input.srf being your suffer
grid this should give you an ascii grid file that arcgis can import

Hope that helps :)