A curated dataset of aerial survey images over the central Congo Basin, 1958

This dataset contains a subset data from the Belgian Science Policy Office funded “Congo basin eco-climatological data recovery and valorisation" project (COBECORE, contract BR/175/A3/COBECORE). The data included is curated and pre-processed aerial survey imagery as used in a a land-use land-cover change analysis "Historical aerial surveys map long-term changes of forest cover and structure in the central Congo Basin". The dataset includes: the pre-processed images (aerial_images.tar.gz) the meta-data associated with the aerial images (flight_paths*) the final orthomosaic (yangambi_orthomosaic.tif) For the full methodology we refer to the full paper: <strong>Hufkens K.</strong>, et al. (2020) Historical Aerial Surveys Map Long-Term Changes of Forest Cover and Structure in the Central Congo Basin. <strong> Remote Sensing</strong>, 12, 638. Please cite the work as such.