Land Use Data for Latitude 9.25 Longitude 77.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Periyar Sanctuary Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary Western Ghats World Heritage Site |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
BuffaloesCattle
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269270 to 299
Soil Types
AcrisolsLeptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Nitisols (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.
