Land Use Data for Latitude 47.75 Longitude 1.25

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

Locations

Petite Beauce
Petite Beauce
Vallée de la Loire : environs de Blois
VALLEE DE LA LOIRE DU LOIR-ET-CHER

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Rapeseed
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Podzoluvisols

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
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

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.