Land Use Data for Latitude 44.25 Longitude 76.75Area 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 drylandsLivestock
CattleSheep
Crops
Oil-bearing cropsPotatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Beets
Growing Period (days)
90 to 119Soil Types
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)Sand Dunes
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0 to 0.50.5 to 2
2 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
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.
