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The wildland-urban interface map of Italy: A nationwide dataset for wildfire risk management

A wildland-urban interface (WUI) raster map was created for the Italian peninsula with a resolution of 30 m per pixel. The map creation process consisted of three fundamental steps: (1) selection of buildings within the wildland-urban interface areas and subsequent classification of these into isola...

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Autores principales: D'Este, Marina, Giannico, Vincenzo, Lafortezza, Raffaele, Sanesi, Giovanni, Elia, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107427
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author D'Este, Marina
Giannico, Vincenzo
Lafortezza, Raffaele
Sanesi, Giovanni
Elia, Mario
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description A wildland-urban interface (WUI) raster map was created for the Italian peninsula with a resolution of 30 m per pixel. The map creation process consisted of three fundamental steps: (1) selection of buildings within the wildland-urban interface areas and subsequent classification of these into isolated, scattered, and clustered buildings; (2) creation of the tree canopy cover layer; (3) generation of WUI map by the intersection of two previous products. According to the WUI map, more than half of the total area of Italy is occupied by interface areas. Areas with buildings classified as clustered (24.61%) and scattered (19.15%) predominate on the territory compared to isolated buildings (14.93%). Most of the buildings are located in areas with a tree cover canopy between up to 64%. This map is functional to the implementation of forest fire prevention plans and to the identification of buildings that are close to fire risk areas such as forests, grasslands, and pastures.
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spelling pubmed-84961032021-10-12 The wildland-urban interface map of Italy: A nationwide dataset for wildfire risk management D'Este, Marina Giannico, Vincenzo Lafortezza, Raffaele Sanesi, Giovanni Elia, Mario Data Brief Data Article A wildland-urban interface (WUI) raster map was created for the Italian peninsula with a resolution of 30 m per pixel. The map creation process consisted of three fundamental steps: (1) selection of buildings within the wildland-urban interface areas and subsequent classification of these into isolated, scattered, and clustered buildings; (2) creation of the tree canopy cover layer; (3) generation of WUI map by the intersection of two previous products. According to the WUI map, more than half of the total area of Italy is occupied by interface areas. Areas with buildings classified as clustered (24.61%) and scattered (19.15%) predominate on the territory compared to isolated buildings (14.93%). Most of the buildings are located in areas with a tree cover canopy between up to 64%. This map is functional to the implementation of forest fire prevention plans and to the identification of buildings that are close to fire risk areas such as forests, grasslands, and pastures. Elsevier 2021-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8496103/ /pubmed/34646917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107427 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full The wildland-urban interface map of Italy: A nationwide dataset for wildfire risk management
title_fullStr The wildland-urban interface map of Italy: A nationwide dataset for wildfire risk management
title_full_unstemmed The wildland-urban interface map of Italy: A nationwide dataset for wildfire risk management
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107427
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