Land Use Data for Latitude 31.75 Longitude 45.75

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

Locations

Shatt Al Gharraf

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Dates
Fruits

Growing Period (days)

1 to 29
30 to 59

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Solonchaks (Saline)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
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.