Land Use Data for Latitude 49.75 Longitude 4.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Confluent des vallées de la Meuse et de la Chiers Forêts de Thiérache : Hirson et Saint-Michel Haute vallée de l'Eau Noire (Chimay; Couvin) Vallées de l'Oise et de la Wartoise (Chimay; Momignies) |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Temperate humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BarleyCereals and cereal products
Sugar Beets
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Urban, mining
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
02 to 10
10 to 50
50 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.
