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Give your profilometer the very best in surface analysis

Used by thousands of engineers, scientists and metrologists worldwide, MountainsMap® software is the gold standard in 2D and 3D surface texture analysis and metrology for use with profilometers and other surface measuring instruments.
Visualize, correct and analyze profiles and surfaces - Filter roughness & waviness according to ISO 16610 - Calculate ISO profile and areal parameters - Extract functional and metrological information from your data using advanced tools: Fourier analysis, particle analysis, step height, form fitting, wavelet filters, fractal analysis...

What’s inside MountainsMap®

Roughness and ISO parameters

Analyze roughness and surface texture parameters according to ISO 25178, ISO 4287, ISO 13565, etc.

Data correction

Prepare your measured data for analysis by removing outliers, local defects and noise.

Surface geometry

Analyze surface geometry: calculate distances, areas, step heights, volumes and much more.

Surface stitching

Increase profilometer range. Use stitching to expand range of all axes (including Z) and overcome instrument limitations.

Sub-surface analysis

Extract and analyze regions of interest, then study them in the same way as complete measured surfaces.

High quality 3D visualization

View surface topography in high quality 3D and visualize profiles, images, series etc.

Advanced contour analysis

Apply complete geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) analysis. Fit elements, calculate deviations and dimensions, compare with CAD models.

Particle analysis and more

Carry out advanced surface texture analysis with Particle Analysis, Fourier & Wavelets and 4D analysis (surface evolution analysis over time etc.)

Correlative analysis

Perform correlative analysis and co-localize data from any profiler or microscope all with the same software.

Benefits

Rely on Digital Surf’s extensive experience in surface metrology and analysis. The majority of national metrology institutes trust the precision of Mountains®.

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Keep track of analysis steps applied to data, revert back to any step in the process with automatic recalculation of all dependent steps.

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Join over 15,000 Mountains® users worldwide and adopt the surface analysis software trusted by the majority of leading manufacturers.

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Easily use comments in your reports, save your work in PDF, Word and Excel formats and share it with colleagues, students, clients etc.

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Work in your own language and get help with using MountainsMap® from our international support team.

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Save time and gain in productivity: save analysis sequences and reapply automatically to large batches of data.

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	MountainsMap® Premium	MountainsMap® Expert	MountainsMap® Imaging Topography	MountainsMap® Topography	MountainsMap® Profile
Instrument compatibility	All profile and areal measuring instruments	All profile and areal measuring instruments	Areal optical profilers producing topography maps together with an intensity image and/or a color image Confocal microscopes Focus variation microscopes White light interferometers	Suitable for areal optical or contact stylus profilometers producing topography maps Areal contact profilometers Scanning single point optical profilometers	2D contact or optical profilometers
Advanced analysis tools (Profilometry)
Automotive parameters, advanced filters
Basic analysis of surface data
Exhaustive list of parameters for surface texture analysis
Profile roughness and waviness analysis
Stitching of images and surfaces, outlier removal & multifocus reconstruction.
Support for file formats from optical profilers
Support for time-series of surfaces and freeform surfaces (shells).

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Recommended optional modules

The following range of optional modules for advanced and specialized applications is available for MountainsMap® for Profilometry range.

Scale-sensitive Analysis Module

Implements a multi-scale analysis based on length-scale or area-scale analyses (formerly in Sfrax software)

SEM Topography Module

3D reconstruction from 2 or 4 SEM images, instant 3D enhancement of single SEM images & semi-automatic image colorization

SPM Extension Module

Read AFM/SPM file formats, work with multi-channel SPM images, correct data acquisition errors

Colocalization Module

Colocalize data from different instrument types and carry out correlative studies

Stories

3D profilometry for quality control of pharmaceutical tablets

The profilometer manufacturer Nanovea conducted a study of different pharmaceutical tablets in order to study their surface roughness. With the use of a profilometer, they measured the average surface roughness of three different tablet surfaces. The data obtained was then analyzed with Nanovea’s Professional 3D software based on Mountains® technology.

Ear bone erosion: SEM image 3D reconstruction helps identify cells responsible

Incus bone erosion is considered a typical characteristic of advanced cholesteatomas (CHO), a pathology of the ear. Researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome explain how they used SEM image reconstruction technique to solve the mystery of this pathology and discover which cell erodes the middle ear incus bone.

Assessing the tribological interface of mechanical parts

Researchers at the Luleå University of Technology and Scania in Sweden, recently investigated how surface topography influences oil film formation in tribological interfaces pertinent to gears. The study was oriented towards the improvement of fuel economy and sustainability. Jonny Hansen, a member of the research team, explains how Mountains® software was used to help achieve results.

Exploring hyperspectral maps of 2D materials

Tailoring 2D semiconductor heterostructures with specific bandgaps is a key aspect of leveraging new quantum materials for electronics and optoelectronics, one of the hot topics for researchers currently working in nanotech. Craig Wall, applications scientist at Montana Instruments, recently investigated the subject using Mountains® software to analyze results from Raman spectroscopy and photoluminescence.

SEM analysis for improved wound care in burn patients

Bacterial infection of wounds is a major risk for patients undergoing skin grafts following severe burn injuries. Drs Monica Iliescu Nelea (left) & Michel Alain Danino, of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department at the University of Montreal Hospital Center (CHUM), Montreal, Canada are part of a group of researchers working on furthering medical understanding of this phenomenon.

SEM image 3D reconstruction of laser-structured surfaces

Ultrashort femtosecond lasers are known for their capacity to efficiently fabricate complex nanostructures and devices for a wide variety of applications. In two recent studies, the properties of femtosecond laser-structured surfaces were revealed thanks to a unique SEM image reconstruction technique.

Detecting tooth enamel erosion

Researchers in tissue engineering & biophotonics at King’s College London (UK) seeking to attain better understanding of tooth enamel erosion recently applied its methods to bring to light micro-scale surface changes over time.

Analyzing photoelectron spectroscopic measurements

Scientists from the ISEN (Institut Supérieur de l’Électronique et du Numérique) in Lille, France, used photoelectron spectroscopy to investigate a new method for growing PbS nanoplatelets on InP surfaces.

2D functional analysis of automotive surfaces

An automotive manufacturer used Mountains® software to study parameters associated with wear and lubrication.

Testimonials

What People Are Saying

Dr. Sergei Magonov

AFM expert, SPM Labs LLC.

I myself have enjoyed working with Mountains® for a number of years. In my opinion, it is essential that AFM users work with specialized software packages such as those based on Digital Surf’s Mountains® platform.

Dr Angel Perez

Research scientist, Barcelona Institut of Material Science

We use several different kinds of instruments to characterize our samples. Mountains® provides multiple instrument compatibility and is able to deal with a wide variety of scientific analysis procedures

Rolandas Verbickas

Research electrochemist, Daido Metal Co., Ltd

I have to say that we did not realize at the beginning all the potential of Mountains^®. But from the moment we started to use we were very happy with the user-friendly interface and many available tools for performing image analysis. I would rate as a very satisfied customer.

Marina Raschetti

Institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon (France)

Mountains^® software is very versatile. The “operators” are intuitive and it is easy to access the “help” section for technical explanations. Contact with customer support, which is a must for any new user, is always very smooth and I always get a quick answer to my questions.

Dr Claudiu Giusca

Senior Lecturer in Sensor Technology for Precision In-process Measurement, Cranfield University

Mountains® is able to read specific files from different instrument manufacturers meaning it allows us to compare the results within the same visual platform. We like how results are visualized and when it comes down to applying your operators, the software is intuitive.

Peter Van Rompuy

Primary Lab Technician, Agfa-Gevaert

Superb software and great support!

In my opinion, Mountains® is the way to go if you want to raise the bar and get the most out of your topographic datasets.

Douglas Pysher

Advanced Research Specialist, 3M Electronics Materials Solutions Division

I have been a Mountains^® user since 1999. The technical support staff at Digital Surf have been very helpful over all these years. They have adapted the software to read custom data formats as well as provided application-specific advice on the use of some of the advanced features, such as the motifs analysis. Whenever any issues were found, Digital Surf has always responded quickly and always fixed the problem.

Danielle Macdonald

Assistant professor, University of Tusla

Mountains® software is an exceptional tool for the analysis of surface characteristics on archaeological artifacts. I use this software for the quantification of wear traces on stone tools, allowing us to identify and improve our knowledge of prehistoric human activities. The software is user-friendly and Digital Surf has excellent customer support, making Mountains® a fundamental tool for my research.

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