The Use of Mathematical Morphology Theory in Cartography

The Cartography has been a fundamental instrument for the projection, landmark and other applications on the terrestrial surface. However, there are deficiencies in the Brazilian cartographic products updating. So, the Sensing Remote Images are contributing to minimize this problem. One of the techniques used is mathematical morphology theory with the aim extracted from the features of interest. The extracted features can be used in conventional processes of cartographic products updating. The main operators used in this paper were mmhdome, mmthreshad, mmareaopen and mmareaclose. For the manipulation images the toolbox developed by SDC Information Systems was used. The tool works with the software Matlab. In a simple place the Matlab software has attended many requirements in the extracted features. The results obtained are positives and show the potential use of mathematical morphology theory in Cartography.