Land Use Data for Latitude 12.25 Longitude 79.75

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

Locations

Bahour Lake
Kaliveli Tank and Yeduyanthittu estuary

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
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

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Oil-bearing crops
Oilseeds nes
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Luvisols
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2

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.