Danger doesn’t vanish with the dikes: Comparison of the inundation pattern of the 2006 Danube floods and the historical topographic map of 1864 of South Romania (original) (raw)

Abstract

Some sheets of the 1864 topographic map of South Romania were geo‐referred in order to be co‐analyzed with satellite‐based 2006 flood inundation map of the Bechet area (Dolj County, Romania). The rectification was based on the corners of the old map sheets as control points, using the previously gathered metadata (geodetic datum and map projection parameters, map sheet structure and labelling) of the historical cartographic material. The horizontal accuracy of the geo‐reference of the old map was well below the pixel size of the MODIS imagery. The historical map reveals that a considerable part of the croplands along the Danube River was a regularly inundated area and the result gave a hint that an old village was forced to move to a new place after 1864 because of the floods.

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