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Comparative analysis of the Copernicus, TanDEM-X, and UAV-SfM digital elevation models to estimate lavaka (gully) volumes and mobilization rates in the Lake Alaotra region (Madagascar)
Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Egmontstraat 5, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Benjamin Campforts
Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Gerard Govers
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Emilien Aldana-Jague
Earth and Life Institute, Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Vao Fenotiana Razanamahandry
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Tantely Razafimbelo
Laboratoire des Radio Isotopes, Université d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Tovonarivo Rafolisy
Laboratoire des Radio Isotopes, Université d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Liesbet Jacobs
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Short summary
Obtaining accurate information on the volume of geomorphic features typically requires high-resolution topographic data, which are often not available. Here, we show that the globally available 12 m TanDEM-X DEM can be used to accurately estimate gully volumes and establish an area–volume relationship after applying a correction. This allowed us to get a first estimate of the amount of sediment that has been mobilized by large gullies (lavaka) in central Madagascar over the past 70 years.
Obtaining accurate information on the volume of geomorphic features typically requires...
