Land Use Data for Latitude 17.25 Longitude 74.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
BuffaloesCattle
Goats
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 to 209
Soil Types
Leptosols (Shallow soils)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 75Agricultural 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.
