Il Veneto tra dati pandemici, immagini satellitari e social-media nell’analisi del contagio e del lockdown

Veneto, one of the most densely populated, industrialized and tourist regions in Italy, also has the sad distinction of being one of the first to have seen Covid-19 arrival in its territory. The maps and reflections produced for the Veneto region have brought out some aspects related to the analysis of the pandemic and the consequences of the lockdown that affected our region and which we want to highlight in this contribution. On the side of the pandemic, the poor availability of statistics on the infection at the municipal level, which is the smaller scale to draw any consideration of the relationships between the spread of the infection and the anisotropy of the territories, also introduced in our work the discussion launched by the #datibenecomune campaign for ask the government for open, up-to-date and machine-readable data. Together with the maps on the infection, produced mainly with information obtained from the mass media, which highlight the peculiar situations of the municipalities of Vo’ Euganeo and Merlara, the location of the hospitals and Covid hospitals is presented. Regarding to the lockdown, we highlight its main effects on mobility, pollution, economy and tourism, obtaining maps from statistical data and experimenting with the analysis of spatial information from a volunteered geographic information approach through the processing of geo-localized tweets, as well as the study of satellite images with remote sensing techniques.