High-resolution digital elevation models and orthomosaics generated from historical aerial photographs (since the 1960s) of the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia

This dataset contains the inputs used for Structure from Motion Multiview Stereo photogrammetry processing for the year 1967 and 1984 i.e Unprocessed scanned historical aerial Photographs, camera position coordinates, flight index and Ground Control Points. All the scanned historical aerial photographs data are in TIFF format except four photographs in JPEG format under a zipped folder ("1967_Scanned_HAPs_Part1.7z and 1967_Scanned_HAPs_Part2.7z" for the 1967 Historical Aerial Photographs and "1984_Scanned_HAPs_Part1.7z and 1984_Scanned_HAPs_Part2.7z" for the 1984 Historical Aerial Photographs). The "Flight_Index.Zip" contains shapefiles of the camera position and polygon of consecutive aerial photograph index; "GCP.Zip" contains text file of the GCPs used for the 1967 and 1984; and "Camera_Position.Zip" contains the file of the camera position (Label, Easting, Northing and Altitude) of each historical aerial photographs. The results of the above dataset could be accessible on Zenodo repository "10.5281/zenodo.7269999". Anyone can reuse the presented dataset to produce DEMs and Orthomosaics; and use for the following application areas: 1. watershed management 2. analyses of historical landscape change 3. detailed mapping and analyses of geological and archaeological features, as well as natural resources 4. analyses of geomorphological processes 5. socioecological patterns and dynamics 6. modelling and planning for telecommunications 7. biodiversity research.