Land Use Data for Latitude 7.75 Longitude 31.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Saharan flooded grasslands ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralismGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Sheep
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 to 209
Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0 to 0.50.5 to 2
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
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.
