Land Use Data for Latitude 11.75 Longitude 79.75

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

Locations

East Deccan dry-evergreen forests ecoregion
Ousteri Lake

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Luvisols
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
8 to 16

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.