Land Use Data for Latitude 49.25 Longitude 2.75

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

Locations

Forêts picardes : Compiègne, Laigue, Ourscamp
Forêts picardes : Compiègne, Laigue, Ourscamps
Forêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du roi
Forêts picardes : massif des Trois Forêts et bois du Roi
Marais de Sacy

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 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.