MountainsMap

Integration by instrument manufacturers

• Hitachi map 3D on Hitachi's scanning electron microscopes,
• TopoMAPS on Thermo Fisher Scientific scanning electron microscopes,
• TalyMap, TalyProfile, or TalyMap Contour on Taylor-Hobson's profilometers,
• PicoImage on Keysight's AFM's,
• HommelMap on Jenoptik's profilometers,
• MountainsMap - X on Nikon's microscopes,
• Apex 2D or Apex 3D on KLA-Tencor's profilometers,
• Leica Map on Leica's microscopes,
• ConfoMap on Carl Zeiss' microscopes,
• MCubeMap on Mitutoyo profilometers.
• Vision 64 Map on Bruker optical profilometers
• AttoMap on cathodoluminescence-analysis-dedicated scanning electron microscopes from AttoLight

  Compatibility

• Mountains native file format is the SURF format.
• Mountains is compatible with most instruments of the market capable of supplying images or topography.
• 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 accepted

• Profile : z=f and series of the same : z=f, as issued by stylus 2D profilometers.
• Parametric profile : = f, as issued by contouring instruments
• Surface : z=f and series of the same : z=f Also called "topography".
• Shell : free form surface allowing to describe a complex external shape of a 3D object or a collection of 3D objects
• True color image : = f and series of the same = f
• Surface-image : The association of a surface and an image = f as issued by 3D optical profilers built from a light microscope
• Multi-layer images : = f, as issued by multi-channel scanning probe microscopes
• Force curves, series of force curves and cubes refer to the force spectroscopy in scanning probe microscopy
• Spectrum, series of spectra, and hyperspectral cubes refer to spectral analysis

History of versions

• Digital Surf launched their first surface analysis software package in 1990 for MS-DOS, then their first 3D surface analysis package in 1991 for Macintosh II.
• 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, and to SPM image analysis.
• Version 6.0 completed the specialization of the platform per instrument type. 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
• 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.
• Version 7.2 introduces near real-time 3D topography reconstruction for scanning electron microscopes
• Version 7.3 adds fast colorization of scanning electron microscope images based on object-oriented image segmentation.
• Version 7.4 offers 3D reconstruction from a single SEM image, and enhanced 3D printing
• Version 8.0 is due in Q2 2019.

  Instruments supported