Land Use Data for Latitude 50.25 Longitude 3.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Bassin de l'Escaut en amont de Tournai (Antoing; Brunehaut; Péruwelz; Tournai) Bassin de la Haine Bois de Colfontaine (Boussu; Colfontaine; Dour; Frameries) Forêt de Bon-Secours (Bernissart; Péruwelz) Haut-Pays des Honnelles (Honnelles; Quiévrain) Vallée de la Haine en aval de Mons (Bernissart; Boussu; Hensies; Jurbise; Mons; Quaregnon; Saint-Ghi Vallée de la Trouille (Estinnes; Frameries; Mons; Quévy) |
Agricultural Land Uses
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestockUrban land
Ecosystems
Temperate humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsMaize
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Beets
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Luvisols
Podzoluvisols
Podzols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
2 to 5Agricultural 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.
