Land Use Data for Latitude 7.25 Longitude 79.75

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

Locations

Muturajawela

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
20 to 30

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.