Land cover raster data of the Italian mountain ranges (Alps & Apennines) for the 1954 - 2012 period

Description

The dataset
is composed by 32 rasters representing land cover maps of 16 landscapes (1954 - 2012 period) divided by mountain region
membership (Alps or Apennines) as indicated in
the following list:
ALPS

Bagni – BAN
- 1574.3 ha

Mello –
MEL- 1433.7 ha
Sapè – SAP-
959.4 ha
Pesio –
PES- 1599.2 ha
Ventina –
VEN - 630.4 ha
Musella –
MUS - 921.4 ha
Veglia –
VEG - 1407.2 ha
Devero –
DEV - 1570.0 ha
APENNINES
Cimone -
CIM - 1593.4 ha
Sibillini -
SIB - 1601.3 ha
Gran Sasso
- GRS - 1602.4 ha
Terminillo
- TER - 1600.7 ha
Morrone -
MOR - 1603.7 ha
Genzana -
GEN - 1603.4 ha
Monte Mare
- MMA - 1604.0 ha

Matese -
MAT - 1605.4 ha

Metadata

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Cell
Size (X, Y): 1, 1 meters

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Coordinate
System: WGS84 UTM Zone 32N (EPSG: 32632)

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NoData
Value: 255

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Data
type: 8 Bit unsigned integer

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Format:
GeoTIFF

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Compression:
LZW

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Land
cover classification: object-oriented segmentation and video
photointerpretation (Garbarino et al. 2013).

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Land
class values: 1 = forest, 2 = grassland, 3 = cropland, 4 = human, 5 =
unvegetated