Land Use Data for Latitude 44.75 Longitude -0.75

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

Locations

Garonne : marais de Bordeaux
Marais de Bruges

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Fruit tree (forestry plantations only)
Fruits
Grapes
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Sunflower Seed
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Podzols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Bordeaux Phosphoric Acid Plant (Processing Plant)Phosphorus-Phosphates

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.