Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.
The Surfer® Binary Grid Reader/Writer allows FME to read and write data in Golden Software’s Surfer Binary Grid format.
Overview
Surfer is a contouring and 3D surface mapping program developed by Golden Software. Surfer Binary Grid is the binary version of one of the raster formats used by this product.
FME supports Surfer Binary Grid versions 6 and 7.
Reader Overview
FME considers a single Surfer Binary Grid file to be a dataset. Each dataset contains a single FME raster feature.
Writer Overview
FME considers a dataset to be a folder name.
The SURFERBINARY writer distinguishes duplicate output files by appending numbers to the filenames.
Please see About FME Rasters for details.
FME Raster Features
FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data. See About FME Rasters.
Surfer Binary Grid only supports rasters with a single numeric band.