Data transformation from surfer to ARC/INFOR~

Data is a key issue of GIS application.In fact,data in the real world is so much that GIS'ability to accept different data has been a dazzling sub- field in GIS application.In this paper,according to the data reading ways of ARC/ INFO( A general GIS tool software) and data format of Surfer( A graph analysis software) ,a special method is developed to make ARC/ INFO read the spatial and attribute data from Surfer.The capacity of ARC/ INFO to process data has been improved.