Land Use Data for Latitude 11.75 Longitude 14.25

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

Locations

Chad Basin National Park: Chingurmi: Duguma Sector

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed 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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Cow Peas Dry
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Plantains
Yams

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119

Soil Types

Planosols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
No data

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100

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.