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on (CRDA) and the DG/ACTA in strengthening and 
lity developing their GIS units 
rid >  FAO/UNEP Global Land Cover Network initiative; 
igh the TAO will host a topic centre for land cover 
on- mapping methodological development (based upon 
tral the FAO/UNEP Land Cover Classification System). 
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ind Acknowledgements 
le. The author wish to thank the managing board of the Italian 
Remote Sensing Association who provided suggestions and 
comments to this report paper, particularly Mario A. 
Gomarasca, Simonetta Paloscia and Fabio Maselli. 
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