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I've been scouring the forums to see if there is a way to detect sharp, unnatural elevation changes greater than a certain amount in ArcGIS Pro. I've run across an issue in some DEMs where there are drop offs in a relatively flat area where there shouldn't be, likely due to mosaicking. Any suggestions?
Use the slope tool in Arc with D8 or Dinf checked, and output set as degree. It will generate a raster which you can then threshold in your raster calculator. These sharp changes are likely above 85° so you can use a conditional such as 'if('slope.tif' > 85, 1, 0)' such that (condition, 1 if true, 0 if false).
Assuming you want to investigate where these sharp lines are occurring, convert this new binary raster to polygon using the polygonize tool and apply a small buffer to highlight these areas encountering this issue.
