Land Use Data for Latitude 49.25 Longitude 8.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size) Urban land EcosystemsTemperate humidTemperate drylands LivestockBuffaloesCattle Pigs Poultry Sheep CropsBarleyCereals and cereal products Sugar Beets Wheat Growing Period (days)180 to 209Soil TypesCambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Histosols (Peat and muck soils) Luvisols 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 5Mineral Extraction
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. |