Mapping Flooded Paddy-Rice Fields in the Landscape between Turin and Milan: A GIS-Based Method for Detecting Scenic Routes for Experiential Tourism

The current research aims to explore the potential of ESA Sentinel-2 time-series satellite imagery, for detecting seasonal landscape changes paddy-rice fields, in north-west Italy, by using GIS mapping tools. On a regional scale context, has several implications agricultural monitoring, precision farming, food production, water management and climate change. However, it also concerns theirs high scenic value perception, which can be great resource sustainable tourism. defining characteristic is that rice plants grow on flooded soils. In field slow tourism, such temporary site-specific condition become an unconventional tourist destination. been applied territories between cities: Turin Milan, where phenomenon flooding, spring season, generates outstanding perception rural landscape. shows effectiveness workflow compute vegetation indices, are sensitive fields. final outcome thematic map highlighting routes existing road network allows experiencing conditions.