Land Use Data for Latitude 8.25 Longitude 77.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Kunthangulam Bird Sanctuary |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryRainfed 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 humidLivestock
BuffaloesCattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Oil-bearing crops
Oilseeds nes
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Lixisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
40 to 50Agricultural 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.
