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{
    "link": "http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/?#data/",
    "retrievedDate": "13-Feb-2020",
    "additionalInfo": "Land is a central component of economic and environmental accounting. As defined by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF) land is \u201ca unique environmental asset that delineates the space in which economic activities and environmental processes take places and within which environmental assets and economic assets are located\u201d. Land cover refers to the observed physical and biological land cover of the Earth\u2019s surface, and includes natural vegetation and abiotic (non-living) surfaces (SEEA CF, 5.257). The land cover classification of the SEEA CF currently is the international standard to prepare the physical accounts for land cover. The SEEA Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries SEEA-AFF (FAO, 2016), which was adopted in June 2016 by the UNCEEA as an \"Internationally Approved Methodological Document\" in support of the SEEA CF, also applies the land cover classification of the SEEA CF.  In the scope of the SEEA CF and SEEA AFF, land cover information is relevant for understanding the changing composition and condition of countries ecosystems, including its agricultural and forest landscape. A physical asset account for land cover with opening stocks, additions and reductions to stock, recording of net changes and closing stock is formulated in the SEEA AFF (Table 4.9 Physical land cover asset account).",
    "dataPublishedBy": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2020)",
    "dataPublisherSource": "The UN SEEA Central Framework is the souce of the land cover classification.  Geospatial sources of land cover information are the following Global Land Cover maps:  1)\tThe IGBP-MODIS-derived land cover product, available for the years 2001\u20132012 (Friedl et al., 2010) \u2014 spatial resolution 500m. 2)\tThe land cover maps produced by the Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Geomatics under the Climate Change initiatives (CCI) of the European Spatial Agency (ESA), available annually for the years 1992\u20132015. CCI-LC maps \u2014 spatial resolution 300m."
}