MountainsSEM®

SEM image analysis software you can rely on
Brand: 
Digital Surf
Category: 
AFM/SPM, SEM, Optical profilers Analysis Software

Trusted by the world's greatest SEM manufacturers, MountainsSEM® software is a comprehensive, dedicated solution for your scanning electron microscope image analysis.
Add color to objects in SEM images in just a few clicks - Reconstruct the 3D topography of your sample from one or multiple image scans - Create 3D effects with EDS/EDX maps - Visualize & analyze FIB-SEM tomography cubes - Perform 2D particle analysis - Measure objects in SEM images (lengths, areas, angles, volumes etc.) - Combine SEM images with data from other instruments for correlative study - Stitch images for large specimens - Correct and enhance SEM images - Characterize surface roughness

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What’s inside MountainsSEM®

SEM image colorization & enhancement

Colorize SEM images easily:

  • Go from black and white to color in just a few clicks
  • Objects are detected automatically and colorized by the software
  • No need to create layers or play with transparency

Learn more: www.digitalsurf.com/news/add-color-to-sem-images-in-only-a-few-steps/

Correct and enhance SEM images:

  • smooth
  • remove artefacts
  • fix lighting
  • adjust brightness and contrast

3D reconstruction from stereo pairs

  • Switch from standard 2D images to “topographic” models
  • Reconstruct a 3D model from two successive tilted scans of your sample in just a few seconds
  • Obtain accurate height values from good quality stereo pairs

Learn more: www.digitalsurf.com/blog/7-tips-for-producing-sem-stereo-pairs/

3D reconstruction from 4 images

  • Upgrade your SEM images to 3D in seconds
  • Generate a 3D model from 4 images obtained using a four-quadrant detector and visualize otherwise invisible details
  • Achieve enhanced rendering by overlaying the combined SEM image on the 3D topography at a user-defined transparency level

Learn more: www.digitalsurf.com/blog/using-a-four-quadrant-detector-in-3d-reconstruction/

3D rendering from single images

  • Generate rough-draft 3D renderings from single SEM images
  • Improve visual interpretation of the image (contrary to 3D reconstruction from stereo pairs, height values are not metrological in this case).

Create "3D" effects with EDS/EDX maps

  • Build spectacular renderings associating EDS (EDX) maps or other spectral/compositional data with SEM images (or topography if available)
  • Highlight surface properties & composition
  • Access a wide range of rendering options (palettes, color mixing, transparency etc.)

FIB-SEM tomography

  • Load, display and analyze focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy image series as 3D voxel cubes
  • Associate tomography and chemical analysis
  • Slice through the inside of your materials: choose segmentation and animation settings
  • Produce 3D particle and grains statistics from your 3D voxel cubes

2D particle analysis

  • Quickly identify and quantify features in virtually any SEM image
  • Benefit from dedicated SEM-SE and SEM-BSE image segmentation & object detection
  • Calculate over 70 different characteristics (area, perimeter, diameter etc.) and sort them into user-defined classes
  • Generate statistics and create control charts, scatter plots, histograms etc.

Scale & measure features

  • Set images to scale
  • Accurately measure any feature directly on the image itself: lengths, areas, perimeters, angles etc.
  • Extract and measure profiles and horizontal contours (cross-sections).

Learn more: www.digitalsurf.com/news/measure-any-object-in-a-microscope-image/

Correlative analysis

  • Combine SEM images from different detectors (SE + BSE) or with data from other measurement instruments (AFM/SPMs, 3D optical microscopes) for correlative analysis
  • Colocalize your SEM images with spectral analysis data (EDX, Cathodoluminescence…) and build impressive chemical maps
Mountains® Core Features

Works with all SEMs, trusted by the manufacturers

  • Process data from any brand of SEM
  • Join over 20,000+ Mountains® users worldwide
  • Use image analysis software chosen and provided by the leading manufacturers 
  • The majority of national research laboratories trust the precision of Mountains® (NIST, NPL, PTB, LNE, etc...)

Scientific software with a document layout

  • Organize the different steps of your SEM image processing (original images, distance measurements, particle statistics, etc...) on one or several pages
  • Publish these directly in different formats (PDF, Word and Excel) to share with your colleagues, students, clients, etc...

Total traceability

  • MountainsSEM® unique analyis workflow lets users see all the analysis steps already applied to data
  • Revert back to any step in the process at any time
  • Workflow is interactive

 Powerful automation

  • Automate your repetitive SEM work and speed up your analysis process
  • Save analysis sequences and reapply automatically to large batches of data
  • Accelerate analysis with built-in statistic tools

Surface imaging & metrology expertise

  • 30+ years' experience developing analysis software for the global industrial and scientific community
  • Digital Surf specializes in surface texture analysis according to ISO standards (as used for profilometers)
  • Heavy investment in research and development
  • Our team of experts constantly test and improve the quality of Mountains® and ensure the software is compliant with current scientific norms and methods

Work and get help in your own language

  • Work in one of the 11 languages available in the MountainsMap® user interface
  • Get help on using the software for your applications from our international support team