Kivu Rift 1957-58-59 orthomosaics, version 2020

The orthomosaics provided in this repository are based on historical aerial photographs acquired in 1957, 1958 and 1959 over the Kivu Rift region, in Eastern D.R.Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. This is the 1st version of these orthomosaics, used in the frame of the work of Depicker et al. (2021), on the historical dynamics of landslide risk in the Kivu rift.

How to cite the data

If you use the orthomosaics, please cite the following to references:

Smets, B., Depicker, A., 2023. Kivu Rift 1957-58-59 orthomosaics, version 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7802109.

Depicker, A., Jacobs, L., Mboga, N., Smets, B., Van Rompaey, A., Lennert, M., Wolff, E., Kervyn, F., Michellier, C., Dewitte, O., Govers, G., 2021. Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift. Nature Sustainability 4, 965-974. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00757-9.

Main characteristics of the orthomosaics

Format = GeoTIFF

Pixel depth = 16-bit unsigned (unint16)

Spatial resolution = 1 or 1.1 m

Coordinate system: WGS 84 / UTM 35S (EPSG: 32735)

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