Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors present key findings of an international survey on Land Cover and Land Use, emphasize the importance of land cover in achieving several goals and introduce the Land  Cover Legend Registry.

Very interesting paper.

Well implemented and explained paper.

Minor comment:

Please make all figures more readable.

Author Response

The authors thank the reviewer for the time given to review our paper, their constructive and useful efforts and contribution to improve this article for land cover legend registry.

Minor comment: Please make all figures more readable.

Answer: As suggested by the reviewer, all the figures have been updated in the document.

Reviewer 2 Report

I reviewed the manuscript entitled, An international library for land cover legends: the Land Cover Legend Registry. The manuscript is well written with appropriate scientific literature. The introduction explains the need of conducting this study. Methodology is appropriate with literature citation. Presentation of research findings is according to standards; however, discussion should be improved before being accepted for publication.

The objectives of this study were not clear. Please revise it.

Line 123: it can be changed as Figures 1 and 6. It is Figure 6 or Figure 2.

Discussion must be improved throughout the manuscript

The quality of the figures is too low. Please improve the quality. All figures have low quality. This must be improved throughout the manuscript in all figures. Figure 8 is not readable even at 200 % zoom.

Conclusions should be revised and concise

None of the references are according to journal format. Please revise point-by-point and follow journal guidelines.

Author Response

The authors thank the reviewer for the time given to review our paper, their constructive and useful efforts and contribution to improve this article for land cover legend registry.

Please see the attachment.

 

Author Response File: Author Response.docx