Land Use Data for Latitude 16.25 Longitude 82.25

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

Locations

Goadavari-Krishna mangroves ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Wetlands - Mangrove

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Rice
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
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.