Land Use Data for Latitude 14.25 Longitude 99.25

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

Locations

Erawan National Park
Salak Phra Wildlife Sanctuary

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
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)
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols
Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Ban Sam Sui Fluorspar ProspectQuartz, Fluorine-Fluorite
Ban Thimongtha Barite Deposit (Surface)Barium-Barite
Chang Phuak 1 Mine (Surface-Underground)Tin, Tungsten
Khao Mai Mine (Surface-Underground)Tin, Tungsten
Pha Pae Mines (Surface-Underground)Tin, Tungsten
Pilok Mines (Surface-Underground)Tungsten
Poo Mer Mines (Surface-Underground)Tungsten
Song Khwae Mines (Surface-Underground)Tin

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.