Land Use Data for Latitude 51.25 Longitude 5.75

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

Locations

Grensmaas
Groote Peel
Hamonterheide, Hageven, Buitenheide, Mariahof en Stamprooierbroek
Hamonterheide, Hageven, Buitenheide, Stamprooierbroek en Mariahof
Itterbeek met Brand, Jagersborg en Schootsheide en Bergerven
Leudal
Mariapeel and Deurnesepeel
Strabrechtse Heide and Beuven
Uiterwaarden langs de Limburgse Maas met Vijverbroek
Weerter- en Budelerbergen
Weerter-and Budelerbergen

Agricultural Land Uses

Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Beets
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

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)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Luvisols
Podzols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

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
Budel (Processing Plant)Zinc, Refiner, Cadmium, Cobalt, Copper, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid

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.