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Using a light field camera in this way creates an easy way for obtaining 3D point clouds from one snapshot and enabling diversity in monitoring and modelling applications for remote sensing. Considering an LF image and associated depth map as an input, we first apply histogram equalization and histogram stretching to enhance the separation between depth planes. We then apply multi-modal edge detection by using feature matching and fuzzy logic from the central sub-aperture LF image and the depth map. These two steps of depth map enhancement are significant parts of our novelty for this work. After combing the two previous steps and transforming the point\u2013plane correspondence, we can obtain the 3D point cloud. We tested our method with synthetic and real world image databases. To verify the accuracy of our method, we compared our results with two different state-of-the-art algorithms. 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