{"id":419,"date":"2026-02-16T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/?p=419"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:37:43","slug":"free-sofware-landserf-empowering-geospatial-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/free-sofware-landserf-empowering-geospatial-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Free sofware: Landserf &#8211; Empowering geospatial exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ndSerf<\/strong> is a freely available application for the visualisation and analysis of surfaces. Applications include visualisation of landscapes; geomorphological analysis; gaming; GIS file conversion; map output; archaeological mapping and analysis; surface modelling and many others. It runs on any platform that supports Java (Windows, MacOSX, Unix, Linux etc.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paleturquoise-reindeer-331443.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Free-Software-for-Surface-Analysis-Explore-LandSerf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Handles multiple surface models &#8211; raster digital elevation models (DEMs), vector Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs), contours and metric surface networks (MSNs).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interactive 3D viewing and &#8216;flythrough&#8217; of surfaces on platforms that support OpenGL.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A range of powerful and interactive visualisation techniques including lighting\/shade models, multiple image blending and dynamic graphical query.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fully controllable either via its attractive graphical user interface, or via scripting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raster and vector transformation including image rectification and map projection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multi-scale surface processing based on quadratic regression.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fractal and polynomial surface generation for modelling and simulation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multi-scale parameter and feature extraction (slope, aspect, curvature etc.).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Import and export of common raster and vector formats.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Import and export from and to Garmin GPS receivers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paleturquoise-reindeer-331443.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sampleScreen-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-313\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LandSerf is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. To download right click (Ctrl-click on Mac) on the relevant link below and &#8216;Save link as&#8230;&#8217; somewhere on your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/download\/landserf230WindowsInstall.jar.zip\">landserf230WindowsInstall.jar.zip<\/a> (9.8 Mbytes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/download\/landserf230LinuxInstall.jar\">landserf230LinuxInstall.jar<\/a> (9.9 Mbytes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/download\/landserf230MacOSXInstall.jar\">landserf230MacOSXInstall.jar<\/a> (9.8 Mbytes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Documentation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/landserf230\/doc\/landserfManual.pdf\">The LandSerf Manual (pdf)<\/a> &#8211; All the LandSerf documentation in a single searchable book.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/landserf230\/doc\/userguide\/index.html\">User&#8217;s Guide<\/a> &#8211; Description of all LandSerf&#8217;s features with examples of their use.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/landserf230\/doc\/tutorial\/index.html\">Tutorial<\/a> &#8211; Step by step tutorial on how to use LandSerf.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/landserf230\/doc\/howto\/index.html\">&#8216;How to&#8217; guides<\/a> &#8211; Instructions on undertaking specific tasks with LandSerf, such as programming, scripting and importing data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/landserf230\/doc\/theory\/index.html\">Theory<\/a> &#8211; Detail on some of the theoretical techniques implemented by LandSerf.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/landserf230\/doc\/changes.html\">Changes<\/a> &#8211; Changes since the previously released version of LandSerf.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/landserf230\/doc\/thirdparty\/index.html\">Third party software<\/a> &#8211; Details of third party software and code and used by LandSerf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paleturquoise-reindeer-331443.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-314\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ENJOY !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ndSerf is a freely available application for the visualisation and analysis of surfaces. Applications include visualisation of landscapes; geomorphological analysis; gaming; GIS file conversion; map output; archaeological mapping and analysis; surface modelling and many others. It runs on any platform that supports Java (Windows, MacOSX, Unix, Linux etc.)&nbsp; https:\/\/www.staff.city.ac.uk\/~jwo\/landserf\/index.html Features: Download: LandSerf is available for&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/free-sofware-landserf-empowering-geospatial-exploration\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free sofware: Landserf &#8211; Empowering geospatial exploration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aurelieng.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}