Land Use Data for Latitude 30.25 Longitude 47.75

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

Locations

Shatt Al Arab marshes

Agricultural Land Uses

Shrubs - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

1 to 29
30 to 59
60 to 89

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

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.