Historical cartographic and topo-bathymetric database on the French Rhône River (17th–20th century)

Arnaud, Fanny; Sehen Chanu, Lalandy; Grillot, Jules; Riquier, Jérémie; Piégay, Hervé; Roux-Michollet, Dad; Carrel, Georges; Olivier, Jean-Michel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1939-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1939-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1939-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

Data description paper

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10 May 2021

Data description paper |

| 10 May 2021

Historical cartographic and topo-bathymetric database on the French Rhône River (17th–20th century)

Fanny Arnaud, Lalandy Sehen Chanu, Jules Grillot, Jérémie Riquier, Hervé Piégay, Dad Roux-Michollet, Georges Carrel, and Jean-Michel Olivier

Data sets

Cartographic and topo-bathymetric archive dataset on the French Rhône River (17th-20th centuries). Fanny Arnaud, Lalandy Sehen Chanu, Jules Grillot, Jérémie Riquier, Hervé Piégay, Dad Roux-Michollet, Georges Carrel, and Jean-Michel Olivier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.922437

Short summary

This article provides a database of 350 cartographic and topographic resources on the 530-km-long French Rhône River, compiled from the 17th to mid-20th century in 14 national, regional, and departmental archive services. The database has several potential applications in geomorphology, retrospective hydraulic modelling, historical ecology, and sustainable river management and restoration, as well as permitting comparisons of channel changes with other human-impacted rivers worldwide.