Large-scale analysis and new technologies: a new geographical interpretation of the space for the territorial management

Abstract

Large-scale information and cartography allow the detection and analysis of units and processes hardly identifiable on a medium and small scale. The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is carrying on a quantitative change in the data management and the widening of its use, as well as with a quantity of data able to manage, is also getting a qualitative change. This contribution shows the results of a work which took place, during five years, in the Montseny massif. This massif is the highest unit of the Catalan Coastal Rangers, located at the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. A map of the land uses and vegetation has been done and it represents an inventory of the uses and actual covering in detail. The technology allows and offers a new interpretation and it implies a spatial dynamic vision of the natural systems consequence, in many cases, of an ancient and present exploitation system.