Intensive Agricultural Land Use by River Subbasin in Southeast Asia
| Analytical Overview |
| We combined the EDC 1999 watershed boundaries with the Global Land Cover Characteristics Data base and identified those areas with intensive cropland. |
Map Projection
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:
- 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. - 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..