Land Use Data for Latitude 48.75 Longitude 2.25

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

Locations

Etang de Saint Quentin
Marais d'Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte
Marais de Fontenay-le-Vicomte et d'Itteville
SITES DE SEINE-SAINT-DENIS

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Podzoluvisols
Urban, mining

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
(Facility) Saint-Denis Refinery (Processing Plant)Lead
Vanadium Operation (Processing Plant)Vanadium

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.