MountainsMap
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| Developer(s) | Digital Surf |
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| Initial release | September 1996 |
| Stable release | 7.3 [1] / January 25, 2016 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Platform | PC |
| Type | Scientific Software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.digitalsurf.com |
MountainsMap is a surface imaging and metrology software published by the company Digital Surf. Its main application is micro-topography, the science of studying surface texture and form in 3D at the microscopic scale. The software is used mainly with stylus-based or optical profilometers, optical microscopes and scanning probe microscopes.
Since version 7.0, MountainsMap includes a version dedicated to scanning electron microscopes, with 3D reconstruction, and one to hyperspectral microscopes and cameras (Raman, FT-IR, EELS, EDX hyperspectral cube analysis).[2]
MountainsMap 7.0 Graphical user interface (microtopography of an artificial leather texture from a car dashboard)
MountainsMap is mainly offered as embedded or optional OEM analysis software by most profilometer and microscope manufacturers,[3][4] usually under their respective brands; it is sold for instance as:
- TalyMap, TalyProfile, or TalyMap Contour on Taylor-Hobson's profilometers,
- PicoImage on Agilent's AFM's,
- HommelMap on Jenoptik's profilometers (Hommel-Etamic line of products),
- MountainsMap - X on Nikon's microscopes,
- Apex 2D or Apex 3D on KLA-Tencor's profilometers,
- Leica Map on Leica's microscopes,[5]
- ConfoMap on Carl Zeiss' microscopes,[6]
- MCubeMap on Mitutoyo profilometers.[7]
- Vision 64 Map on Bruker optical profilometers[8]
MountainsMap is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Spanish.
Compatibility
- MountainsMap's native file format is the SURF format (.SUR extension).
- it is compatible with most instruments of the market capable of supplying images or topography.
- MountainsMap complies to the ISO 25178 standard on 3D surface texture evaluation and offers the profile and areal filters defined in ISO 16610.
- Generated metrology reports are generated in proprietary format but can be exported to PDF and RTF formats.
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).[9]
Mountains 6 - Makalu 2010 event logo
- Version 6.0[10] completed the specialization of the platform per instrument type.[11] 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[12][13][14]
- 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).[15]
- 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.[1][16][17]
Instruments supported
| Version | Instruments supported[18] | Specific functions |
|---|---|---|
| MountainsMap Profile | 2D Profilometers | ISO 25178 surface texture parameters Roughness, Waviness, Contour analysis |
| MountainsMap Scanning Topography | 3D Profilometers based on single point sensors[7] (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[8] Confocal Microscopes[6] Fringe projection profilometers[19] |
Management of missing/bad data points Field expansion by stitching 3D true-color management (topography+color) |
| MountainsMap SEM | Scanning Electron Microscopes | 3D reconstruction from a stereo pair [20] 3D reconstruction using a 4-quadrant detector semi-automatic colorization [21] |
| MountainsMap SPM | Atomic Force Microscopes Scanning Tunneling Microscopes |
Multi-Channel SPM image management Force curve analysis |
| MountainsMap HyperSpectral | Cathodoluminescence microscopes[22] | Hyperspectral analysis |
References
- 1 2 What's new in MountainsMap ? on the editor's Web site
- ↑ Software for SEM and Multi-Spectral (Raman) Instruments in Imaging & Microscopy
- ↑ Digital Surf technology on Olympus Microscopes in Imaging and Microscopy
- ↑ Surface analysis data to be sold with instruments in Engineering talk
- ↑ New Leica Map Surface Imaging and Metrology Software for Microscopy in nanowerk.com
- 1 2 Carl Zeiss to Provide Surface Imaging Software from Digital Surf with Selected Microscopes in Azonano.com
- 1 2 Mitutoyo Corporation signs OEM contract with Digital Surf
- 1 2 Bruker Nano Surfaces offers Vision64 Map with 3D optical microscope systems in News medical
- ↑ New Mountains 5.1 From Digital Surf Available For Free Upgrade on nanowerk.com
- ↑ MountainsMap 6 Available in July 2010 from Digital Surf on Azonano.com
- ↑ MountainsMap 6 - Instrument-oriented Solutions for Surface Texture Analysis on nanowerk.com
- ↑ (French)Makalu summit climbing history
- ↑ (French)a french and swiss success at the summit of the Makalu mountain
- ↑ Makalu2010 expedition film participates to the mountain film festival of Les Diablerets, Switzerland
- ↑ Digital Surf Announce New Generation of Mountains 7 Software for Surface Metrology in Azonano.com
- ↑ Next Monday, Digital Surf to Launch Revolutionary SEM Image Colorization in Azonmaterials
- ↑ Showing your true colors, 3D and color in electron microscopy in Lab News magazine
- ↑ Product Range Description on the editor's Web site
- ↑ 3-D Measurement Software in Photonics.com
- ↑ Digital Surf Releases Mountains 7 Software for Surface Imaging and Metrology in Azomaterials
- ↑ Adding colour to SEM imaging in Electronic Specifier
- ↑ Software brings 3D mapping to nanoscale objects in Electronic Specifier
External links
- New 3D parameters and filtration techniques for surface metrology, François Blateyron, Quality Magazine White Paper
- Manufacturer's official Web site
- Makalu 2010 expedition sum up published by one of the Mountaineers, Philippe Bourgine
- Makalu 2010 expedition video
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