In the past two centuries Ampezzo’s territory has known relevant changes and transformations both in its landscape and spatial texture which today appear especially evident in the progressive advance of the woods, in the abandonment of meadows and pasture and in the decay of the settlement fabric. To elicit a reading through time of the changes underwent by this territory a range of different cartographic sources has been employed pointedly those of the Napoleonic and Austrian cadastre which have been integrated into a Geographical Information System endowed with the most updated cartographic resources such as Regional large scale digital map, the current cadastre and remote sensing images.
This method has allowed not only to proceed to a visual comparison for the periods taken into consideration (1843/51, 1950, 1970, 2004) of the evolution in soil usage and vegetation coverage but also to quantify the areas involved in the transformation process and to describe the main evolution patterns in order to be able to foresee the kind of landscape that will shape Ampezzo’s territory and the Friuli mountains in the next years.
