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In the Global Land Cover Network framework, FAO and UNEP set up in Rome and in Florence a Land Cover Topic Centre, to provide updated information, technical support, products (LCCS, GEOVIS and MAP software) in the field of land cover mapping.


 GLCN - Innovation in Land Cover Mapping

In response to the high demand of natural resource information to meet multi-user requirements, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) have jointly developed the Global Land Cover Network - GLCN initiative.

Posted by Admin on Wednesday, 15 December 2004 (12:36:37) CET (988 reads)
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 Towards LCCS 3: LCCS as a formal language

NewsStarting from an empirical observation of the current LCCS software, Marco Di Costanzo and Luca Ongaro from IAO propose a concept paper aimed to the formalization for the LCCS system as a basis for the the design of the architecture of a new LCCS software implementation.
Download the original paper

Posted by Ongaro on Friday, 24 February 2006 (11:05:21) CET (616 reads)
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 Newsletter of the GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Project Office

NewsThe new GOFC-GOLD land cover implementation team newsletter number 8 (November 2005) is available at GOFC-GOLD pages at University of Jena.

Posted by elisabetta on Wednesday, 14 December 2005 (11:59:08) CET (510 reads)
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 LCCS Manual

NewsThe new Land Cover Classification System (LCCS2) manual is now available. You can download it here.

Please, download also the LCCS latest release (v. 2.4.5).

If you want a hard copy of this manual, please contact http://dwms.fao.org/lccs/index_en.asp
and complete the registration form.

Posted by elisabetta on Tuesday, 22 November 2005 (09:32:45) CET (555 reads)
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 LCCS NEW RELEASE

NewsThe new LCCS v 2.4.5 release is now available. In this new release a bug regarding a classifier, for which a patch was previously provided, has been fixed.
Please download LCCS v 2.4.5 from the download area, LCCS/software, or from LCCS v 2.4.5

Posted by Admin on Tuesday, 22 March 2005 (13:54:28) CET (593 reads)
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 A NEW TOOL NOW AVAILABLE

TrainingA new tool called "LEGEND HELP" has been prepared to help in legend interpretation.
This tool will be available for several LCCS-mapped countries.


Now available the "TANZANIA LEGEND HELP"
Also available the "SUDAN LEGEND HELP"
Also available the "RWANDA LEGEND HELP"
Also available the "KENYA LEGEND HELP"
Also available the "DR CONGO LEGEND HELP"
Also available the "BURUNDI LEGEND HELP".
Also available the "ERITREA LEGEND HELP".
Also available the "EGYPT LEGEND HELP".

The legend help tool is a set of slides (in powerpoint format) which aims at improving the understanding of the LCCS legend.

It includes a set of photographs linked to the relative satellite image for the most important legend classes, plus an extended explanation of the the used classifiers.


Please download the
BURUNDI LEGEND HELP
ERITREA LEGEND HELP
EGYPT LEGEND HELP
DR CONGO LEGEND HELP
KENYA LEGEND HELP
RWANDA LEGEND HELP
SUDAN LEGEND HELP
TANZANIA LEGEND HELP

Posted by Admin on Monday, 07 February 2005 (14:37:01) CET (668 reads)
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