MountainsMap

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MountainsMap

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
Developer(s)Digital Surf
Initial releaseSeptember 1996
Stable release
10.0 [1] / June 1, 2023 (2023-06-01)
Operating systemWindows
PlatformPC
TypeScientific Software
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.digitalsurf.com
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Integration by instrument manufacturers

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:

Compatibility

Data types ("studiables") accepted

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Vocabulary:

  • refer to space coordinates, to the time, and to an intensity. means is function of , referring usually to space coordinates and to a scalar.
  • In Mountains's vocabulary, these data types are referred to as "studiables".

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]

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Data type Example Image Formula Application Has a time-dynamic equivalent ("series of ..." ) Instrument
Profile Yes stylus 2D profilometer.
Parametric profile "Contour": Form analysis in 2D No Contour instruments
Surface Thumb 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...
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History of versions

  • Digital Surf launched their first (2D) surface analysis software package in 1990 for MS-DOS ("DigiProfil 1.0"), then their first 3D surface analysis package in 1991 for Macintosh II ("DigiSurface 1.0").
  • Version 1.0 of MountainsMap was launched in September 1996, introducing a change in the name after a move of the editor to Windows from MsDos and Macintosh platforms.
  • Version 5.0 introduced the management of multi-layers images. It was a move to Confocal microscopy (analysis of topography+color as a single object as opposed to separate objects in former versions), and to SPM image analysis (analysis of topography+current, topography+phase, topography+force as a single image).[15]
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Mountains 6 - Makalu 2010 event logo
  • Version 6.0[16] completed the specialization of the platform per instrument type.[17] For Version 6.0 the company teamed with a group of alpinists to launch the new version at the summit of the Makalu mountain. A special logo was created for this marketing event. The expedition was successful and Alexia Zuberer, a French and Swiss mountaineer was then the first Swiss woman to reach the summit of the Makalu, Sandrine de Choudens, a French PhD in chemistry being the first French woman to succeed[18][19][20]
  • Version 7.0 was unveiled in September 2012 at the European Microscopy Congress in Manchester, UK. It expanded the list of instruments supported, in particular with new Scanning electron microscope 3D reconstruction software and hyperspectral data analysis (such as Raman and FT-IR hyperspectral cube analysis).[21]
  • Version 7.2 (February 2015) introduces near real-time 3D topography reconstruction for scanning electron microscopes
  • Version 7.3 (January 2016) adds fast colorization of scanning electron microscope images based on object-oriented image segmentation.[22][23]
  • Version 7.4 (January 2017) offers 3D reconstruction from a single SEM image, and enhanced 3D printing [24]
  • Version 8.0 (June 2019) is the successor of both Mountains 7.4 and SPIP 6.7 software packages ("SPIP" standing for "Scanning Probe Image Processor") after the acquisition by Digital Surf of the Danish company Image Metrology A/S, the editor of SPIP.[25] Version 8.0 also introduces the analysis of free form surfaces, called "Shells" in the software.
  • Version 9.0 (June 2021) completes the "shells" (free form surfaces) with surface texture analysis adapted from the ISO 25178 parameters already calculated on the standard surfaces. It also comes with a new product line, "MountainsSpectral", dedicated to the chemical mapping of elements in both 2D (images of chemical composition) and 3D (multi-channel tomography of chemical composition), with applications such as FIB-SEM EDX (X-Ray analysis coupled with focused ion beam tomography) or confocal Raman (Raman analysis in confocal microscopy)[26]
  • Version 10.0 (June 2023) completes the list of supported microscopes with Light Microscopes,[1] and introduces new features such as CAD-comparison of free-form surfaces ("shells"), aspherics lens analysis.[27]

Instruments supported

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Version Instruments supported[28] Specific functions
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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References

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