Harp Piemonte — Mosaic pictures Sentinel 2 — Summer 2020

The dataset is a mosaic of images captured by Sentinel 2A (European Copernicus programme) during the summer of 2020. The images are appropriately mosaiced to cover the Piedmontese territory according to a series of 12 tiles and are published in natural colors: bands 4 (red), 3 (green) and 2 (blue) of the MSI sensor (13 channels in the visible/infrared VNIR).The mosaic was realised by Arpa Piemonte as part of the activities related to the national project of monitoring of soil consumption 2019 conducted by the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA) through the coordination of ISPRA and the involvement of several regional agencies. The project aims to monitor the transformations of the territory due to urban, infrastructural, commercial expansions, etc. with the consequent loss of natural, agricultural and semi-natural soil, understood as an essential and fundamentally non-renewable environmental resource. The methodology of analysis uses, for the first time on a national scale in a uniform and uniform way, the new Sentinel 2A/B images which, given their level of detail and the frequency of revisitation guaranteed by the Sentinel mission, allow to obtain overviews of the national territory in a regular and constant way (multi-time analysis).The comparison between these allows to highlight the main transformations of the territory and the related phenomena of land use (expansion of urban settlements, new roads, shipbuilding for new works, etc.).