Land Use Data for Latitude 10.25 Longitude 76.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Anamalai Sanctuary Chimmony Wildlife Sanctuary Grass Hills Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park Parambikulam Sanctuary Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary Thattekkad Wildlife Sanctuary |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
BuffaloesCattle
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
Soil Types
LuvisolsNitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Plinthosols
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 4040 to 50
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.
