Land Use Data for Latitude 50.75 Longitude 4.25

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

Locations

Affluents brabançons de la Senne (Braine-l'Alleud; Braine-le-Château; Ittre; Tubize)
Bois d'Arpes et de l'Hôpital (Nivelles; Seneffe)
Bois de la Houssière (Braine-le-Comte; Ittre)
Bossen van het zuidoosten van de Zandleemstreek
Canal souterrain de la Bête Refaite (Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont; Seneffe)
Hallerbos en nabije boscomplexen met brongebieden en heiden
Vallée de l'Aubrecheuil (Mons; Soignies)
Zoniënwoud

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Brussels (Processing Plant)Gold, PGE, Silver
Clabercq (Processing Plant)Iron
Sadacem 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.