The wildland-anthropic interface raster data of the Italy-France maritime cooperation area (Sardinia, Corsica, Tuscany, Liguria, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)

Liliana Del Giudice; Bachisio Arca; Carla Scarpa; Grazia Pellizzaro; Pierpaolo Duce; Michele Salis

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2021.107355

The wildland-anthropic interface raster data of the Italy-France maritime cooperation area (Sardinia, Corsica, Tuscany, Liguria, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)

Data Brief. 2021 Sep 12:38:107355. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107355. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Liliana Del Giudice¹, Bachisio Arca¹, Carla Scarpa¹, Grazia Pellizzaro¹, Pierpaolo Duce¹, Michele Salis¹

Affiliation

¹ National Research Council of Italy, Institute of BioEconomy (CNR IBE), Sassari, Italy.

Abstract

We applied a geographical information system analysis to reclassify and characterize anthropic buildings based on structure density and area covered, land type, and proximity to wildlands able to originate intense wildfires and spot fires. The methodology was carried out in the 93,000 km² Italy-France Maritime cooperation area (which includes the Regions of Sardinia, Tuscany, and Liguria, in Italy, and Corsica, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in France). We produced a 100-m raster dataset that characterizes and maps medium-high anthropic presence, wildland-anthropic areas, dispersed anthropic areas, and non-anthropic zones, in the whole study area. The study allowed to highlight variations in wildland anthropic interfaces among and within Regions as a function of anthropic presence and types and the surrounding wildlands. The spatial dataset provided with this work represents a valuable contribution to support landscape and urban planning and inform strategies to limit wildfire impacts nearby anthropic areas.

Keywords: Anthropic areas; Communities; Fire risk; GIS; Mediterranean Basin; Wildland-Urban Interface.