Land Use Data for Latitude 15.75 Longitude -16.25

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

Locations

Guembeul Avifaunal Reserve and St Louis lagoons

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)
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Extensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands
Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

30 to 59
60 to 89

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Unknown

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

75 to 100
above 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.