La CSS ISTAT: un nuovo strumento per le statistiche territoriali

Abstract

ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) geographic datasets, updated to realize ‘Census 2010’ project in October 2011, represents a useful resource to improve information derived from Land cover/use cartography. In fact both ISTAT vector data and other cartography data (i.e. Regional Land cover/use geographic datasets) can be integrated to realize a product that can help to better understand statistics linked to land cover cartography. Thematic maps like this are also useful to examine and describe a lot of phenomena linked to territorial dynamics especially in urban environment (i. e.urban sprawl). This paper summarizes an ISTAT project that has the aim to produce, a ‘Statistics Synthetic Map’ for the entire national Italian territory; it has realized yet for five Italian regions (Emilia-Romagna, Valle d’Aosta, Latium, Lombardy, Umbria, and Basilicata and Marche). In brief, the final product represents integration among geographic datasets and it is based on ISTAT enumeration areas that are so described not only in relation to statistical character (i.e. resident population, buildings, etc.) but land cover/use too. The legend of the map is based on 80 classes.

Keywords

• istat
• enumeration areas
• census project
• arcgis 10.1
• land cover
• land use