Land Use Data for Latitude 8.25 Longitude 77.75

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

Locations

Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
Kunthangulam Bird Sanctuary

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Lixisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

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.