Recovery of the aerial photographs of Ethiopia in the 1930s

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Volumn 17, Issue , 2016, Pages 170-178

  Nyssen, Jan ^a   Petrie, Gordon ^b   Mohamed, Sultan ^c   Gebremeskel, Gezahegne ^c   Seghers, Valérie ^a   Debever, Martijn ^a   Hadgu, Kiros Meles ^d,e   Stal, Cornelis ^a   Billi, Paolo ^f   Demaeyer, Philippe ^a   Haile, Mitiku ^d   Frankl, Amaury ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Ethiopian Mapping Authority   (Ethiopia)

^d MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE   (Ethiopia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conservation of cultural heritage; Ethiopian Mapping Agency; Historical aerial photographs; Historical data; IGM; Santoni

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957890161     PISSN: 12962074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2015.07.010     Document Type: Article

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