Post Tropical Storm Chalane Drone Orthomosaic for Zomba, Malawi

A drone orthomosaic map of Zomba, Malawi, captured after Tropical Storm Chalane. The data was collected by GLOBHE using their Crowddroning platform and is available in GEOTIFF format under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-23.

Use Cases

• Assess infrastructure and property damage based on high-resolution drone imagery.
• Plan recovery and reconstruction efforts based on visual analysis of affected areas.
• Train machine learning models for automated damage detection based on aerial imagery.
• Conduct change detection analysis by comparing pre- and post-storm imagery.
• Support academic research on the impacts of tropical storms on urban and rural landscapes.

Strengths

• Data is provided in a standard geospatial format (GEOTIFF).
• The dataset has a clear, permissive license (CC-BY-4.0).
• The data provider (GLOBHE) offers more maps and data on demand globally.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Globhe Drones

Collection Method

Collected via drone mapping (Crowddroning).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-23 10:37:50.870015; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Zomba, Malawi