Land Use Data for Latitude 25.75 Longitude -81.25

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

Locations

Big Cypress National Preserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
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 - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Podzols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Harmon Brothers - Copeland QuarryLimestone, General

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.