Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Andrea Pase, Federico Gianoli, Luca De Felice, Marina Bertoncin, Michael Cherlet, Angela Kronenburg García
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/1
Language Italian Pages 28 P. 32-59 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa1-2022oa13366
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The Sahel is an area that, over time, has had multiple definitions, climatic-botanical and political: its limits have been traced in very different ways. Even the usage of this name and its delimitation on maps has been openly questioned and contested. Ourcontribution proposes a cartography capable of mapping the incessant movement of conditions, limits and possibilities that characterize this strip between the Sahara and the humid Sudanese regions, rendering the areal definition of the Sahel visible andfluid at the same time. However, it is a question of rethinking the very foundation of cartography – what has been ‘taken for granted’ in the past – such as the common tools of cartographic representation, for example the concept of ‘isohyet’ to identify climatic areas or ‘boundaries’ to define political jurisdictions. Knowledge from fieldwork and expertise in the processing of satellite and geo-referenced data converge in this path of analysis and representation.
Keywords: ; Sahel, cartography, Google Earth Engine, rain, floods, borders
Andrea Pase, Federico Gianoli, Luca De Felice, Marina Bertoncin, Michael Cherlet, Angela Kronenburg García, Il respiro del Sahel. Rappresentazioni di uno spazio in movimento in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 1/2022, pp 32-59, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa1-2022oa13366