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• Technical input on reporting obligations in the Land Use, Land-Use Change and For 
estry / Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (LULUCF/AFOLU) section, i.e. on 
the use of satellite data (see GOFC-GOLD report 33 24 ) 
• Supporting methodological discussions in the context of “Reducing Emissions from 
Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (see: GOFC-GOLD sourcebook 25 ) 
• Implementation and input to observing terrestrial ECV’s including land cover tasks in 
the GCOS IP and in defining reporting standards for land cover. 
GOFC-GOLD is contributing to all of the Land Cover actions (T22-T27) noted in the GCOS 
IP. The actions are linked and built upon each other, e.g. the development of a standard land 
cover classification system (action T22) is to be parallelized with evolving common validation 
protocols (action T23). The availability of standards for land characterization (action T22) and 
validation (action T23), and the continuity of fine resolution observations (T24) are essential 
for implementing the other actions T25-27. Progress has been achieved in all actions. 
24 http://www.fao.org/gtos/gofc-gold/series.html 
25 http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/redd