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High-resolution digital elevation models and orthomosaics generated from historical aerial photographs (since the 1960s) of the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia
Mohammed Ahmed Muhammed
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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
Dirk Zeuss
Department of Environmental Informatics, Faculty of Geography, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschhausstraße 12, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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We studied rates of litter decomposition in natural and disturbed vegetation on elevation gradients of Mount Kilimanjaro to disentangle effects of climate and disturbance. Decomposition was slower in disturbed than in natural forests, but we did not find a negative effect of disturbance for non-forest vegetation. Decomposition slowed down with increasing land-use intensity, but only in the warm wet season. Temperature and humidity were the most important drivers of decomposition in all analyses.
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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,...
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