Land Use Classification - United Nations

LG/14/10 14th Meeting of the London Group on Environmental Accounting Canberra, 27 30 April 2009 Land Use Classification Xiaoning Gong, Lars Gunnar Marklund, and Sachiko Tsuji, FAO Land Use Classification Proposed to Be Used in the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) (Draft Version) Xiaoning Gong, FAO Statistics Division Lars Gunnar Marklund, FAO forestry Department Sachiko Tsuji, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department 23 April 2009 Thanks are due to Dominic Ballayan, Pietro Gennari, Naman Keita, David Marshall, Robert Mayo, Freddy Nachtergaele, Hiek Som, Mukesh Srivastava, and Mette Loyche Wilkie for beneficial discussions and inputs. The remaining errors are those of the authors. Please address any comments and suggestions to Xiaoning Gong (Email: 2 of 18 Introduction and Background The SEEA hinges on a lot of the work being done by FAO in particular concerning definitions and classifications of the natural resources, including forestry , fisheries, land, soil, ecosystems, and water among others.)

Lars Gunnar Marklund, FAO Forestry Department ... differences between these two and the importance of LU statistics for related policy analysis and decision making. LC is defined as the observed (bio)-physical cover of the earth’s surface (Di Gregorio and Jansen 1997, 1998). Such an observation can be made by the human eye, aerial

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