Land Use Data for Latitude 15.75 Longitude -16.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size) Agriculture in protected areas Urban land Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism Bare areas - Extensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics drylandsDeserts LivestockCattleGoats Poultry Sheep CropsCereals and cereal productsRice Paddy Growing Period (days)30 to 5960 to 89 Soil TypesArenosols (Sandy)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits) Unknown TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)0 to 0.50.5 to 2 2 to 5 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)75 to 100above 100 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. |