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Historical Maps, Terrestrial and Aerial Photographs

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Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains

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In this chapter, we present an overview of historical aerial photographs and maps of Ethiopia, illustrating it with examples from Dogu’a Tembien. Availability and quality of currently existing maps are also discussed, as well as the use of landscape photographs for analysis of environmental changes.

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  1. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281(S8), B-9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Jan Nyssen, Miro Jacob & Amaury Frankl

  2. School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Gordon Petrie

  3. Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Mekelle University, P.O. Box 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia

    R. Neil Munro & Mitiku Haile

  4. Gotha Research Centre, University of Erfurt, Schloßberg 2, D-99867, Gotha, Germany

    Wolbert Smidt

  5. PhD Programme “History and Cultural Studies” of the Department of History and Heritage Management, Mekelle University, P.O.Box 2239, Mekelle, Ethiopia

    Wolbert Smidt

  6. International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, University of Tottori, Tottori, 680-0001, Japan

    Paolo Billi

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  1. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Jan Nyssen

  2. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Miro Jacob

  3. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Amaury Frankl

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Nyssen, J. et al. (2019). Historical Maps, Terrestrial and Aerial Photographs. In: Nyssen, J., Jacob, M., Frankl, A. (eds) Geo-trekking in Ethiopia’s Tropical Mountains. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04955-3_31

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