Surveyor Features

Mosaic Acquisition

• Turboscan for fast continuous scan and acquire
• Standard scan for step and acquire for low light applications
• Snake and raster scanning
• User-defined settle time at each field
• Pause and continue scanning mode
• Grab individual fields into mosaic with key-press
• Acquire at full or reduced resolution
• JPEG compression option
• Image streaming for mosaic sizes limited only by free disk space

Scan Patterns

• Rectangle
• Circular
• Annular
• Cross ("+", "x")
• Random
• User-defined
• Save / load scan patterns
• Keyboard support for pattern scanning and stage navigation

Camera Support

• Image setup based on camera capabilities
• Exposure, gain, offset, and gamma control as available
• Automatic and manual white balance
• Color or monochrome acquisition
• Frame-rate shading correction
• Shading correction on live display
• Calibrated graticule overlay on live image
• Grab, copy, save live image

Export / Import

• Workspace save and load of full mosaic, scan pattern and Surveyor environment
• Export mosaic as full resolution bitmap
• Export mosaic as reduced resolution bitmaps
• Export user-selected region of interest
• Print full mosaic or selected region
• Print preview

Specimen Map

• Stage and pattern views
• Point and click relocation to position or pattern field
• Real-time graphic display of current stage position on specimen map
• Zoom and pan
• Drag-drop pattern definition
• Acquire and display multiple mosaics at different magnifications

Calibration

• X and Y calibration factors
• Stored calibration table for multiple lens and secondary optic settings
• Guided camera to stage alignment procedure
• Automatic correlation-based calibration procedure
• Automatic stage orthogonality correction

Microscope Automation

• OASIS-4i XY stage and Z focus
• Software joystick for stage, focus, turret, and lamp control
• Leica Microsystems DM range focus, turret, condenser, and lamp control via RS-232
• Olympus BX-61 focus, turret, condenser, and lamp control via RS-232
• Stage and focus speed defined per objective
• Computer controlled parfocality and illumination defined per objective

Automatic Focus

• Multi-point predictive focus for continuous focus tracking
• Predictive focus setup wizard
• Video autofocus using OASIS-AF module
• Digital camera autofocus using OASIS-DC1 module
• Autofocus parameters stored separately for each objective lens