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Mountains is an image analysis and surface metrology software platform published by the company Digital Surf. Its core is micro-topography, the science of studying surface texture and form in 3D at the microscopic scale. The software is dedicated to profilometers, 3D light microscopes ("MountainsMap"), scanning electron microscopes ("MountainsSEM") and scanning probe microscopes ("MountainsSPIP").
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![]() MountainsMap 7.0 Graphical user interface (microtopography of an artificial leather texture from a car dashboard) | |
Developer(s) | Digital Surf |
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Initial release | September 1996 |
Stable release | |
Operating system | Windows |
Platform | PC |
Type | Scientific Software |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www |
The main editor's distribution channel is OEM, through the integration of MountainsMap by most profiler and microscope manufacturers,[2][3] usually under their respective brands; it is sold for instance as:
Vocabulary:
Most studiables have a dynamic (time-series) equivalent, e.g., the surface studiable used to study topography has an associate studiable Series of Surfaces used to study the evolution of topography (e.g., heat distortion of a surface).
Mountains analyses the following basic data types:[14]
Data type | Example Image | Formula | Application | Has a time-dynamic equivalent ("series of ..." ) | Instrument |
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Profile | Yes | stylus 2D profilometer. | |||
Parametric profile | "Contour": Form analysis in 2D | No | Contour instruments | ||
Surface | ![]() |
Surface Topography | Yes | Optical or contact 3D profilometer | |
Shell | Analysis of Free Form Surfaces | No | Multiple axis profilometers, tomographs | ||
Point clouds | Import of non-meshed shells and surfaces | No | Scanning devices | ||
True color image | True color or gray-level image | Yes | Scanning Electron Microscope, Light microscope, simple camera | ||
Surface-image | Topography and true color image | No | optical profilometer providing the topography with the image | ||
Multi-channel image | No | Atomic force microscope, spectrum analyzer, correlative imaging using heterogeneous sources | |||
Multi-channel cube | No | FIB-SEM, Confocal-Raman tomography | |||
Force curves | Yes | Atomic force microscopes | |||
Spectrum | Yes | Spectrometer | |||
Hyperspectral image | No | X-Y scanning spectrometer, hyperspectral camera, SEM/EDX, Raman, Cathodoluminescence... |
Version | Instruments supported[28] | Specific functions |
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MountainsMap Profile | 2D Profilometers | ISO 25178 surface texture parameters Roughness, Waviness, Contour analysis |
MountainsMap Topography[29] | 3D Profilometers based on single point sensors[8] (stylus contact, chromatic non-contact) |
ISO 25178 Surface topography parameters 3D surface topography rendering Sensor range expansion by vertical patching |
MountainsMap Imaging Topography | White light interferometers[9] Confocal Microscopes[7] Fringe projection profilometers[30] |
Management of missing/bad data points Field expansion by stitching 3D true-color management (topography+color) |
MountainsSEM | Scanning electron microscopes | 3D reconstruction from a stereo pair[31] 3D reconstruction using a 4-quadrant detector semi-automatic colorization[32] |
MountainsSPIP | Atomic force microscopes Scanning tunneling microscopes |
Multi-Channel SPM image management Force curve analysis |
MountainsSpectral | Cathodoluminescence microscopes[33] | Hyperspectral analysis |
MountainsLab | All of the previous | Correlative microscopy (colocalization of images from heterogeneous microscope types)[34] |
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