Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude 79.75

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

Locations

Veeranam Lake

Agricultural Land Uses

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)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Lixisols
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

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.