Land Use Data for Latitude -18.25 Longitude 48.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Fierenana |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics perhumid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
330 to 359Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0 to 0.50.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
75 to 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.
