Land Use Data for Latitude 10.25 Longitude 77.25

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

Locations

Berijam (Kodaikonal)
Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary
Eravikulam National Park
Eravikulam National Park
Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park
Munnar
Poomparai and Kukkal

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
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-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Oil-bearing crops
Oilseeds nes
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 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.