Land Use Data for Latitude 16.25 Longitude -16.25

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

Locations

Diawling National Park
Diawling National Park
Djoudj wetlands
Ndiaƫl basin (including the 'Trois Marigots')

Agricultural Land Uses

Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Sorghum

Growing Period (days)

30 to 59

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Regosols (Other)

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

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.