Geomorphological landslide inventory map of the Daunia Apennines, southern Italy

Abstract. Detailed and accurate geomorphological historical landslide inventory maps are an invaluable source of information for many research topics applications. Their systematic preparation worldwide has been advised by researchers as it may foster our knowledge on landslides, their spatial temporal distribution, potential interaction with the built environment, contribution to landscape dynamics, response climate change in past. Due extreme variability morphological radiometric elements that can reveal produced expert interpretation, which makes a time-consuming expensive process, often discourages wide-area mapping activities. In this paper we present new map 1460 km2 area Daunia Apennines, north-western sector Apulia (Puglia) region, southern Italy. The contains 17 437 landslides classified according relative age, type movement, estimated depth. Landslides were mapped rigorous reproducible criteria applied two teams photo interpreters sets stereoscopic aerial photographs taken 1954/55 2003. dataset consists digital archive publicly available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942427 (Cardinali et al., 2022).