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Specifically, a tailored Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) and filtering procedure has been applied to digitize and georeference Cesare Battisti\u2019s map of forest density published in his atlas \u201cIl Trentino. Economic Statistical Illustration\u201d from 1915. According to the historical ecology approach, forest history can be analyzed and evaluated with the use of historical documentary sources. Following this approach, historical cartography is a precious information tool, and in many respects unique, through which it is possible to reconstruct the evolution of the forest cover of a given territory. Trentino, in particular, has a rich heritage of historical maps from which to draw useful information for the construction of a qualitative and quantitative diachronic picture of the evolutionary dynamics of wooded areas. In these territories, forest management is a topic of great importance both for its socio-economic implications and for the more strictly environmental ones, connected to the increasingly urgent need to implement mitigation and adaptation policies towards climate change. Thus, the paper presents the historical maps and illustrates the methodology used for the digitisation. Data extracted by the historical sources have been compared with the current one in order to identify changes in forest density in the last century.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi11040238","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,5]],"date-time":"2022-04-05T11:26:07Z","timestamp":1649157967000},"page":"238","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Digitalization and Classification of Cesare Battisti\u2019s Atlas of 1915"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3095-0472","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paolo","family":"Zatelli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9220-9893","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicola","family":"Gabellieri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Humanities, University of Trento, 38122 Trento, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1549-9591","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Angelo","family":"Besana","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Humanities, University of Trento, 38122 Trento, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2123","DOI":"10.1080\/13658816.2018.1482553","article-title":"Comparing historical and contemporary maps\u2014A methodological framework for a cartographic map comparison applied to Swiss maps","volume":"32","author":"Loran","year":"2018","journal-title":"Int. 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