The dataset constitutes a mosaic of images acquired by the Sentinel 2A satellite (European Copernicus programme) during spring 2020. The images are suitably mosaiced to cover the Piedmont area according to a series of 12 tiles and are published in natural colours: bands 4 (red ), 3 (green) and 2 (blue) of the MSI sensor (13 channels in the visible/infrared VNIR). The mosaic was created by Arpa Piemonte as part of the activities connected to the 2019 national soil consumption monitoring project conducted by the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA) through the coordination of ISPRA and the involvement of various 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 analysis methodology uses, for the first time on a national scale in a unitary and homogeneous way, the new Sentinel 2A/B images which, given their level of detail and the frequency of revisiting guaranteed by the Sentinel mission, allow to obtain visions of whole of the national territory in a periodic and constant manner (multi-temporal analysis). The comparison between these allows us to highlight the main transformations of the territory and the related phenomena of land consumption (expansion of urban settlements, new roads, shipbuilding for new works, etc. ).
