SPIEPy Introduction

Python is a great language to use for automatic processing of scientific data. Scanning probe microscopes (SPM) produce scientific data in the form of images, images of surfaces that can have atomic or molecular resolutions. The microscope produces surfaces that are not level. Before you can analyse the surface, the surface must first be levelled (flattened). This Python library provides routines to flatten the surface and to generate statistical data on surface structures. Surfaces with contaminations, step edges and atomic or molecular resolution can be handled.

The library SPIEPy has the packages spiepy with the modules for the tasks described above and spiepy.demo to generate sample data. With this sample data, you can familiarize yourself with SPIEPy.