Land Use Data for Latitude 17.25 Longitude -91.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size) Urban land Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics humidWarm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattlePigs Poultry CropsBananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products Maize Rice Paddy Sugar Cane Sugar crops and sweeteners Growing Period (days)240 to 269270 to 299 Soil TypesGleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)Leptosols (Shallow soils) TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 Population Density (persons per km2)02 to 10 10 to 50 50 to 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)20 to 3030 to 40 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. |