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The Bodélé Depression (BD) in northern Chad, recognized as the world's largest source of aerosol dust, hosts the fastest migrating Barchan dunes, which primarily move in a southwesterly direction. Despite its significance, capturing the short-term, weekly dynamics of dune migration in BD has been hindered by the limitations of traditional monitoring methods, which often suffer from short temporal baselines and geolocation inaccuracies. This study addresses these challenges by enhancing the optical image matching and inversion approach by integrating Landsat-8 (L-8) and Sentinel-2 (S-2) datasets. Specifically, we refine the selection and processing algorithms to enable improved monitoring of dune migration over an 8-year period for L-8 and 6 years for S-2. Rather than directly matching images from different sensors, prone to inconsistencies, we first generate, and fuse offset maps from L-8 and S-2 into unified networks before performing inversion. This fusion strategy condenses the temporal sampling, mitigates gaps caused by cloud cover or dust interference, and significantly improves data continuity over long time spans. As a result, we are able to monitor dune migration at a weekly temporal resolution. The observed migration patterns reveal seasonal and interannual variability, with notably reduced migration rates during summer. We quantify these fluctuations using the Seasonal Sliding Coefficient (SSC), which compares dune velocities across seasons. The highest SSC values (~2 between winter and summer) underscore the pronounced seasonal contrast. Our findings demonstrate that the refined inversion framework, when coupled with sensor fusion, offers dense spatiotemporal insights into dune dynamics while minimizing uncertainties and enhancing temporal coverage. © 2025 IEEE.
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Year: 2025
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