Land Use Data for Latitude 50.25 Longitude 3.25

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

Locations

Les "Cinq Tailles"
Vallée de la Scarpe et de l'Escaut
Vallées de la Scarpe et de l'Escaut

Agricultural Land Uses

Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Podzoluvisols
Podzols
Urban, mining

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

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
Auby-Les-Douai Zn (Processing Plant)Zinc, Cadmium, Lead, Refiner, Silver, Refinery, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid
Novelles-Godault (Processing Plant)Silver
Noyelles-Godault (Processing Plant)Lead, Refiner, Zinc, Refiner, Cadmium, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid, Antimony, Arsenic, Copper, Silver, Refinery

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.