Land Use Data for Latitude 39.25 Longitude 8.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - 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 EcosystemsMediterranean humidLivestockCattleSheep CropsCereals 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 TypesAndosols (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) TerrainPlain 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. |