The fifth meeting of the ISO/TC 211 Land Cover & Land Use Advisory Group (AG 13) will take place on September 21st  from 11:00 - 13:00 UTC. The ISO/TC 211 Land Cover & Land Use Advisory Group (AG 13) was established to  advise ISO/TC 211 on the application and implementation of the ISO/TC 211 standards on Land Cover Land Use in the UN and other transnational organisations and to coordinate with the context of broader UN initiatives for this purpose. The AG LCLU advise ISO/TC 211 on the application and implementation of the ISO/TC 211 standards on Land Cover Land Use in the UN and other mature LCLU initiatives from other international stakeholders worldwide. The AG LCLU shall ensure that the ISO/TC 211 LC and LU initiatives and evolving standards are brought to the attention and discussed with other UN agencies involved with the SDG’s and those agencies' which utilise LC and LU indicators and also report, in a reciprocal way, with the broader UN-GGIM framework.

Agenda item

1.Opening of the meeting – (2022-09-21, 11:00 UTC)Convenor

2.Roll call of delegates and Code of ConductMembers

3.Adoption of the agenda.Convenor

4.Using land cover for environmental accounting: challenges, opportunities and recommendationsAlessio Bulckaen, Natural Capital Accounting Officer at bc3 Basque Centre for Climate Change

5Land cover at USGSLarry Hothem and Kenneth Bagstad USGS 

6.Land cover and land use monitoring in West Africa: challenges and solutionsMustapha Mimouni, head of Geospatial, Sahara and Sahel Observatory - OSS

7.Land monitoring in Europe: challenges and solutionsDr Geoff Smith, Head of Specto Natura Limited EAGLE group

9.An update on ISO standard development – next stepsAntonio Di Gregorio - Liaison representative, FAO

10.Roundtable of discussionProf. Lei Zhang

Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

11.Future perspectives and closing (2022-09-21 13:00 UTC)Convenor