Land Use Data for Latitude -24.25 Longitude -49.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size) Urban land Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics perhumid Warm Tropics humid LivestockCattlePigs Poultry CropsBeans DryCassava Cereals and cereal products Grain (dried) Maize Oil-bearing crops Roots tubers Soybeans Sugar Cane Sugar crops and sweeteners Wheat Growing Period (days)300 to 329330 to 359 above 360 Soil TypesAcrisolsFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)2 to 55 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)10 to 2020 to 30 30 to 40 Mineral Extraction
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. |