Map of naturalistic-cultural value of Italy. An application within the “Carta della Natura” System

This report presents a new application realized within the “Carta della Natura” Information System with the aim of classifying the Italian territory basing on synthetic indexes, including both the natural and cultural values of the country. The Landscape Unit Map of Italy at the scale 1:250.000 was used as reference basemap in order to refer the assessment to homogeneous physiographic units rather than administrative areas. For each unit a “Natural Value” Index, a “Cultural Value” Index and a synthetic index of Naturalistic-Cultural Value were calculated. All data, algorithms and maps build up a new application, developed in a GIS environment, namely, Map of Naturalistic-Cultural Value of Italy.

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