Land Use Data for Latitude 39.25 Longitude 8.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Foresta di Monte Arcosu Site of Community Importance Mount Arcosu Palmas Gulf wetlands |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Mediterranean humidLivestock
CattleSheep
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsFruit tree
Grapes
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Oil-bearing crops
Olives
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
Soil Types
Andosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 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.
