The minutes of a joint meeting between the U.S. FederalGeographic Data Committee's (FGDC) Earth Cover Working Group (ECWG) and Vegetation Subcommittee with FAO's Agriculture Department's Land and Water Development Division and the Research, Extension & Training Divsion of the Sustainable Development Department may be viewed at: http://www.fao.org/waicent/FaoInfo/Agricult/AGL/agls/fgdcfao.htm One of the objectives of the meeting was to identify commonalities between the US and FAO in Earth and Vegetation Cover classification approaches and to move towards an internationally standardized system. FAO's land cover work is an extension of its AFRICOVER project. Information on AFRICOVER may be viewed at: http://www.fao.org/waicent/FaoInfo/sustdev/EIdirect/EIan0003.htm Ciao! Gyde
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