Land Use Data for Latitude 15.25 Longitude 120.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Candaba swamp |
Agricultural Land Uses
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestockMixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
BuffaloesCattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsMaize
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269270 to 299
300 to 329
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3030 to 40
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.
