Land Use Data for Latitude 49.75 Longitude 4.75

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

Locations

Bassin de la Houille en amont de Gedinne (Gedinne)
Bassin du Ruisseau du Ru au Moulin (Bièvre; Gedinne; Vresse-sur-Semois)
Croix-Scaille
Plateau ardennais
Plateau Ardennais
Vallée de la Hulle (Gedinne)
Vallée de la Semois en aval d'Alle (Bièvre; Vresse-sur-Semois)
Vallée du Ruisseau d'Alisse (Viroinval)
Vallée du Ruisseau de Rebais (Vresse-sur-Semois)
Vallée du Ruisseau de Saint-Jean (Gedinne)

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Rapeseed
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil 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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.