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This approach may be useful in other environments where reference data suitable for checking
land-cover change are unavailable.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge the substantial efforts of the following state agencies that
participated in the project: Agriculture Western Australia; New South Wales Land Information
Centre; Department of Information Technology and Management; Northern Territory Department
of Lands, Planning and Environment; Queensland Department of Natural Resources; South Aus-
tralian Department of Primary Industries and Resources; Tasmanian Department of Primary Indus-
try, Water and Environment; Victorian Department of Natural Resources and Environment; and the
Western Australian Department of Land Administration.
The authors would like to thank David Jupp (CSIRO Earth Observation Centre) for his contri-
butions to the development of the independent LC change assessment method and the consultants,
the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University's Geospatial Science Initiative and Geoim-
age, who undertook the independent assessment. David Jupp, Eric Lambin (Catholic University,
Louvain, Belgium), and the Australian Greenhouse Office are thanked for comments on an earlier
manuscript. The Australian government and state government agencies jointly funded this project.
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