Land Use Data for Latitude 17.75 Longitude 103.25

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

Locations

Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
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

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
75 to 100

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.