Author(s)

Clovis Gaboardi

Military Engineers Corps of Brazilian Army (retired), Independent Researcher, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil.

The purpose of this work is to analyze the feasibility of using the wavelet transform in the edge detection of digital terrain models (DTM) obtained by Laser Scanner. The Haar wavelet transform and the edge detection method called Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima (WTMM), both implemented in Matlab language, were used. In order to validate and verify the efficiency of WTMM, the edge detection of the same DTM was performed by the Roberts, Sobel-Feldman and Canny methods, chosen due to the wide use in the scientific community in the area of Image Processing and Remote Sensing. The comparison of the results showed superior performance of WTMM in terms of processing time.

Digital Terrain Model, Edge Detection, Wavelets Transform, Canny, Roberts, Sobel, Sobel-Feldman

Gaboardi, C. (2018) Use of the Wavelet Transform for Digital Terrain Model Edge Detection (Special Issue—Wavelet Analysis). Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 6, 1997-2005. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2018.610171.