Land Use Data for Latitude -21.75 Longitude 55.25

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

Locations

Piton des Neiges: Gros Morne

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics humid

Crops

Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329
330 to 359

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

8 to 16
16 to 30
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

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.