Land Use Data for Latitude 12.25 Longitude 99.75

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

Locations

Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park
Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park and surrounding wetlands
Kuiburi National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269

Soil Types

Acrisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
40 to 50

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Khao DhangIron
Theindaw MineTin

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.