Table 3 Comparison of land use, land-use change, and forestry sector definition between Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Guidelines (IPCC GL), South Korea land management system and Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Guidance

Forest land

All land with woody vegetation consistent with thresholds used to define forest land; also includes systems with a vegetation structure that currently falls below, but in situ could reach, the threshold values used

Land spanning more than 0.5 ha with trees higher than 5 m and a canopy cover of more than 10% and minimum width of more than 30 m

Coniferous, deciduous, mixed forests and bamboo areas of basic forest statistics

Cropland

Cropped land, including rice fields, and agroforestry systems in which the vegetation structure falls below the thresholds used for forest land

Cropped land including rice fields and orchards

Paddy, field, and orchard of agricultural area survey

Grassland

Rangelands and pastureland are not considered as cropland; also include systems with woody vegetation and other non-grass vegetation

Rangelands and pastureland considered as cropland

Pastureland of cadastral statistics

Wetlands

Peat extraction and land covered or saturated by water for all or part of the year and that does not fall into other categories

Areas of peat extractions and land covered or saturated by water for all or part of the year

Rivers, drains, reservoirs, and fish farms of cadastral statistics

Settlements

All developed land, including transportation infrastructure and human settlements of any size, unless they are already included in other categories

All developed land

Nineteen categories of cadastral statistics

Other lands

Bare soil, rock, ice, and all land areas that do not fall into any of the other five categories

Undefined

Undefined