High-resolution digital elevation models and orthomosaics generated from historical aerial photographs (since the 1960s) of the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia
Mohammed Ahmed Muhammed,Binyam Tesfaw Hailu,Georg Miehe,Luise Wraase,Thomas Nauss,and Dirk Zeuss
Department of Environmental Informatics, Faculty of Geography, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschhausstraße 12, 35032 Marburg, Germany
Remote Sensing and Geo-Informatics Stream, School of Earth Sciences, College of Natural and Computational Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, 1176, Ethiopia
Binyam Tesfaw Hailu
Remote Sensing and Geo-Informatics Stream, School of Earth Sciences, College of Natural and Computational Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, 1176, Ethiopia
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2), 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Georg Miehe
Department of Geography, Vegetation Geography, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschhausstraße 10, 35032 Marburg, Germany
Luise Wraase
Department of Environmental Informatics, Faculty of Geography, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschhausstraße 12, 35032 Marburg, Germany
Thomas Nauss
Department of Environmental Informatics, Faculty of Geography, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschhausstraße 12, 35032 Marburg, Germany
We processed the only available and oldest historical aerial photographs for the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. We used structure-from-motion multi-view stereo photogrammetry to generate the first high-resolution DEMs and orthomosaics for 1967 and 1984 at larger spatial extents (5730 km2) and at high spatial resolutions (0.84 m and 0.98 m, respectively). Our datasets will help the scientific community address questions related to the Bale Mountains and afro-alpine ecosystems.
We processed the only available and oldest historical aerial photographs for the Bale Mountains,...
