Software:MountainsMap

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MountainsMap
Mountains (software) logo.jpg
MountainsMap 7 gui.jpg
MountainsMap 7.0 Graphical user interface (microtopography of an artificial leather texture from a car dashboard)
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

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").

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

  • Mountains native file format is the SURF format (.SUR extension).
  • Mountains is compatible with most instruments of the market capable of supplying images or topography.[13]
  • Mountains complies to the ISO 25178 standard on 3D surface texture evaluation and offers the profile and areal filters defined in ISO 16610.
  • The metrology reports are generated in proprietary format but can also be exported to PDF and RTF formats.
  • Mountains is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

Data types ("studiables") accepted

Vocabulary:

  • [math]\displaystyle{ x,y,z }[/math] refer to space coordinates, [math]\displaystyle{ t }[/math] to the time, and [math]\displaystyle{ i }[/math] to an intensity. [math]\displaystyle{ A=f(B) }[/math] means [math]\displaystyle{ A }[/math] is function of [math]\displaystyle{ B }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ B }[/math] referring usually to space coordinates and [math]\displaystyle{ A }[/math] 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 [math]\displaystyle{ z=f(x,y) }[/math] used to study topography has an associate studiable Series of Surfaces [math]\displaystyle{ z=f(x,y,t) }[/math] 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
Profile [math]\displaystyle{ z=f(x) }[/math] Yes stylus 2D profilometer.
Parametric profile [math]\displaystyle{ (x,z) = f(t) }[/math] "Contour": Form analysis in 2D No Contour instruments
Surface Topographie Timbre-Poste.jpg [math]\displaystyle{ z=f(x,y) }[/math] 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 [math]\displaystyle{ (R,G,B) = f(x,y) }[/math] True color or gray-level image Yes Scanning Electron Microscope, Light microscope, simple camera
Surface-image [math]\displaystyle{ (Z,R,G,B) = f(x,y) }[/math] Topography and true color image No optical profilometer providing the topography with the image
Multi-channel image [math]\displaystyle{ (i1,i2,...,in) = f(x,y) }[/math] No Atomic force microscope, spectrum analyzer, correlative imaging using heterogeneous sources
Multi-channel cube [math]\displaystyle{ (i1,i2,...,in) = f(x,y,z) }[/math] No FIB-SEM, Confocal-Raman tomography
Force curves Yes Atomic force microscopes
Spectrum [math]\displaystyle{ (i) = f(lambda) }[/math] Yes Spectrometer
Hyperspectral image [math]\displaystyle{ i = f(x,y,lambda) }[/math] No X-Y scanning spectrometer, hyperspectral camera, SEM/EDX, Raman, Cathodoluminescence...

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]
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

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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Software updates on the editor's Web site
  2. Digital Surf technology on Olympus Microscopes in Imaging and Microscopy
  3. Surface analysis data to be sold with instruments in Engineering talk
  4. Hitachi High-Technologies and Digital Surf announce new Hitachi map 3D software
  5. TopoMAPS image analysis software now available on Thermo Scientific SEM and DualBeam systems
  6. "New Leica Map Surface Imaging and Metrology Software for Microscopy in nanowerk.com". http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=19897.php. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 "Carl Zeiss to Provide Surface Imaging Software from Digital Surf with Selected Microscopes in Azonano.com". http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=22830. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 Mitutoyo Corporation signs OEM contract with Digital Surf
  9. 9.0 9.1 Bruker Nano Surfaces offers Vision64 Map with 3D optical microscope systems in News medical
  10. Software brings 3D mapping to nanoscale objects
  11. JEOL and Digital Surf Partner to Launch Smile View Map Software in Quality Mag
  12. SensoMAP Advanced Analysis Software
  13. List of file formats compatible with Mountains, on the editor's web site
  14. List of data types compatibles with Mountains on the editor's web site
  15. "New Mountains 5.1 From Digital Surf Available For Free Upgrade on nanowerk.com". http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=12629.php. 
  16. "MountainsMap 6 Available in July 2010 from Digital Surf on Azonano.com". http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=17501. 
  17. "MountainsMap 6 - Instrument-oriented Solutions for Surface Texture Analysis on nanowerk.com". http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=16260.php. 
  18. (in French)Makalu summit climbing history
  19. (in French)a french and swiss success at the summit of the Makalu mountain
  20. Makalu2010 expedition film participates to the mountain film festival of Les Diablerets, Switzerland
  21. "Digital Surf Announce New Generation of Mountains 7 Software for Surface Metrology in Azonano.com". http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=25549. 
  22. Next Monday, Digital Surf to Launch Revolutionary SEM Image Colorization in Azonmaterials
  23. Showing your true colors, 3D and color in electron microscopy in Lab News magazine
  24. "Digital Surf - Surface Imaging, Analysis and Metrology Software". http://www.digitalsurf.com/en/issuu.php?id=18877935/40775565. 
  25. The story behind MountainsSPIP, interview of Digital Surf's CEO in Surface Newsletter, Fall 2019, Pages 4-6
  26. The Mountains 9 release, what's coming, in the editor's magazine SURFACE Newsletter
  27. New Product : Digital Surf Mountains 10 Software, in Quality Magazine
  28. "Product Range Description on the editor's Web site". http://www.digitalsurf.com/en/mntproducts.html. 
  29. MountainsMap range description from the Editor's web site
  30. 3-D Measurement Software in Photonics.com
  31. Digital Surf Releases Mountains 7 Software for Surface Imaging and Metrology in Azomaterials
  32. Adding colour to SEM imaging in Electronic Specifier
  33. Software brings 3D mapping to nanoscale objects in Electronic Specifier
  34. Correlation of AFM/SEM/EDS Images to Discriminate Several Nanoparticle Populations Mixed in Cosmetics in Microscopy Today, Vol 29 issue 3, 21 May 2021

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