Land Use Data for Latitude 44.25 Longitude 76.75

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

Locations

Kapchagay Canyon

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Bare areas - Extensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Sheep

Crops

Oil-bearing crops
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Beets

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Sand Dunes

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75

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.