Land Use Data for Latitude 32.75 Longitude -115.75

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Imperial Valley

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

1 to 29

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Unknown

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.