Land Use Data for Latitude 31.75 Longitude 45.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Shatt Al Gharraf |
Agricultural Land Uses
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralismMixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
DesertsLivestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
DatesFruits
Growing Period (days)
1 to 2930 to 59
Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Solonchaks (Saline)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0 to 0.50.5 to 2
2 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 50above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
above 100Agricultural 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.
