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 haMello – MEL- 1433.7 ha Sapè – SAP- 959.4 haPesio – PES- 1599.2 haVentina – VEN - 630.4 haMusella – MUS - 921.4 haVeglia – VEG - 1407.2 haDevero – DEV - 1570.0 haAPENNINESCimone - CIM - 1593.4 haSibillini - SIB - 1601.3 haGran Sasso - GRS - 1602.4 haTerminillo - TER - 1600.7 haMorrone - MOR - 1603.7 haGenzana - GEN - 1603.4 haMonte Mare - MMA - 1604.0 ha Matese - MAT - 1605.4 haMetadata - Cell Size (X, Y): 1, 1 meters - Coordinate System: WGS84 UTM Zone 32N (EPSG: 32632) - NoData Value: 255 - Data type: 8 Bit unsigned integer - Format: GeoTIFF - Compression: LZW - Land cover classification: object-oriented segmentation and video photointerpretation (Garbarino et al. 2013). - Land class values: 1 = forest, 2 = grassland, 3 = cropland, 4 = human, 5 = unvegetated