Land Use Data for Latitude 40.75 Longitude 26.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| DELTA EVROU DELTA EVROU KAI DYTIKOS VRACHIONAS Meric delta |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
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
Temperate humidTemperate drylands
Livestock
BuffaloesCattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton
Sunflower Seed
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149150 to 179
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)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
2 to 510 to 20
30 to 40
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.
