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We combined the EDC 1999 watershed boundaries with the Global Land Cover Characteristics Data base and identified those areas with intensive cropland.


Intensive Agricultural Land Use by River Subbasin in Southeast Asia

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Interrupted Goode's Homolosine

Map Description

This map shows the areas with intensive cropland within watersheds, therefore showing the potentially important within-basin differences. This map Map shows the results for insular Southeast Asia. There are 4,077 in insular Southeast Asia. The area demonstrates a gradient of agricultural use from more populated areas, such as Java and the Philippines, where intensively cultivated areas are predominant in most basins, to a low level of cropland area in Borneo, and the Celebes.
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Citation:
World Resources Institute - PAGE, 2000
Sources:
  1. EDC (U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center). 1999, Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.:USGS and United Nations Environment Proframme/Global Resource Information Database (UNEP/GRID).
    Available On-line at: Source Link.
  2. GLCCD, 1998. Loveland, T.R., B.C. Reed, J.F. Brown, D.O. Ohlen, Z. Zhu, L. Yang, and J. Merchant. 1998. "Development of a Global Land Cover Characteristics Database and IGBP DISCover from 1-km AVHRR Data" In International Journal of Remote Sensing21(6-7): 1303-1330.
    Available On-line at: Source Link.Global Land Cover Characteristics Database, Version 1.2..