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FAO Land Cover Classification System and Harmonisation
GOFC-GOLD endorses LCCS as essential component for harmonization and validation of global and regional land cover datasets. It provides the appropriate framework for land cover legend generation and as exploratory tool for comparing and contrasting classification schemes. GOFC-GOLD LC IT and GTOS recommends LCCS as a standard to space agencies to endorse this to CEOS and any related land cover projects. As part of that process GOFC GOLD will work towards international consensus for the thresholds and a hierarchy of thresholds used in LCCS. Setting up LCCS as an ISO standardLCCS is currently undergoing the approval process to become an ISO standard as a framework to classify land cover and compare systems internationally. A draft version of the standard has been discussed at the 24th Plenary meeting of the ISO Technical Committee 211 (ISO/TC211) for Geographic information and Geomatics (May 2007, in Rome). The 3rd version of LCCS is currently in development. This new version will be based on LCML - the Land Cover Meta Language. The concept was presented at the LCCS Workshop during the 3rd GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Symposium.Further information: Presentation (A. Di Gregorio, FAO): Introduction of the LCCS 3 concept For further information about LCCS-2 contact Antonio Di Gregorio or explore the following resources: LCCS and GLCN: http://www.glcn.org/index_en.jsp LCCS and AFRICOVER: http://www.africover.org/LCCS.htm LCCS: User Manual Version 1.0: http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X0596E/X0596E00.HTM LCCS and Harmonization: GOFC-newsletter_no3.pdf During the 2nd EARSEL Workshop (from 28-30 September 2006 in Bonn, Germany) GOFC-GOLD held a tutorial on LCCS. | ||
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