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

<p>This dataset contains a subset data from the Belgian Science Policy Office funded &ldquo;Congo basin eco-climatological data recovery and valorisation&quot; project (COBECORE, contract BR/175/A3/COBECORE).</p> <p>The data included is curated and pre-processed aerial survey imagery as used in a a land-use land-cover change analysis &quot;Historical aerial surveys map long-term changes of forest cover and structure in the central Congo Basin&quot;.</p> <p>&nbsp;The dataset includes:</p> <ul> <li>the pre-processed images (aerial_images.tar.gz)</li> <li>the meta-data associated with the aerial images (flight_paths*)</li> <li>the final orthomosaic (yangambi_orthomosaic.tif)</li> </ul> <p>For the full methodology we refer to the full paper:</p> <p><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.</p> <p>Please cite the work as such.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>