Land Use Data for Latitude 50.75 Longitude 4.75

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

Locations

Carrière de Dongelberg (Jodoigne)
Carrières souterraines d'Orp-Jauche (Orp-Jauche)
De Dijlevallei
De Dijlevallei
Etangs de Boneffe (Eghezée)
Vallée de l'Orneau (Gembloux; Jemeppe-sur-Sambre; Perwez)
Vallée de la Dyle à Ottignies (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve; Wavre)
Vallée de la Dyle de Wavre à Archennes (Grez-Doiceau)
Vallée de la Dyle en aval d'Archennes (Grez-Doiceau)
Vallée de la Lasne (Rixensart; Wavre)
Vallée de la Thyle (Court-Saint-Etienne; Genappe; Les Bons Villers; Villers-la-Ville)
Vallée du Train (Chaumont-Gistoux)
Valleien van de Dijle, Laan en IJse met aangrenzende bos- en moerasgebieden
Valleien van de Winge en de Motte met valleihellingen.

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

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)
Podzoluvisols
Podzols

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
Arbed Mines (Surface-Underground)Iron
Bumkoper (Processing Plant)Iron, Manganese

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.