1. Tallahassee, Florida Animal Carcass Group Meeting January 27th, 2010
Web Soil Survey Demo
Tallahassee, Florida
Animal Carcass Group Meeting
January 27th, 2010

2. Prior to beginning the Web SS session: 2 important reference sections:

3. USDA-NRCS Web Soil Survey Interface

4. Search Functionality: Can search on any key word (if desired)

5. Navigation Functionality:
Navigation Functionality: By Physical Address, State/County/Survey Area, Lat/Long, PLSS, or Governmental Agency
Select dropdown of your choice, click view to zoom to the survey area

6. Zoom to Location

7. Use the “Zoom In” tool to close into your Area of Interest
Other icons are: Zoom out, Pan, Zoom to Full Extent, Return to Last View, Identify, Measure, AOI

8. At any point in the process, you can click the “
At any point in the process, you can click the “?” for additional information

9. Defining your Area of Interest (AOI):
Define Area: Either rectangular AOI or by irregular polygon. Maximum size: 10,000 acres

10. Viewing the Map Legend and designing your map layout
Click on Legend Tab. Then, right click on desired feature

11. Determining Layer Descriptions:
Right click on the map legend icon for more information

12. Printing Options: Map can be printed immediately or assembled into a soil survey publication (add to Shopping Cart which is free)

13. Soil Data Explorer: Displaying interpretations (Suitabilities or Limitations)
Click Down Arrow to expand. Note Composting Interpretations.

14. Select Interpretation, then Select View Rating

15. Catastrophic Morality (Large Animal Disposal – Pit): Click on Legend tab to display.

16. View Options and Advanced Options for Interpretation Ratings flexibility

17. Table View: Displays Map Unit Summary (including reasons, acres, and percentage)

18. Interpretation Description: Click on View Description for Interpretation details

19. Soil Properties and Qualities (Chemical, Physical, Water Features, etc

20. Depth to Water Table map and table generation is similar to Interpretations

21. If you only want Water Table data only during the Hurricane Season, tailor the reports by months (for example: June-Nov)

22. Creating Soil Reports: Click on Soil Reports tab

24. Setting Layer transparency: Right click on Soil Rating, Select Edit Layer properties

25. Move the Transparency bar to change the Layer View for your preference.

26. Changing the background from Aerial Photography to Topographic Map

27. Shopping Cart Functionality: More than one report can be added.

29. Customize the Report Layout (Either Select or Deselect Report Table Contents)

30. Delivery Options: Either obtain the Report now or Download at a later time

31. A Custom Soil Resource Report is produced in pdf format.

32. QUESTIONS??
What about creating maps for regional or statewide application? Or
Customizing maps and interpretations?

33. Additional interpretation functionality using Soil Data Viewer as an Add-On in ArcGIS (free)

34. Why use Soil Data Viewer instead of Web Soil Survey?
Same functionality and interpretations as Web Soil Survey, but greater flexibility
Once SSURGO (soils) data is downloaded, faster and more dynamic
Ability to customize your layout to better meet project requirements (ie. Features not locked down)
Can utilize or intersect with other layer resource files (for example, hydrology, geology, land use, parcels)
Ability to create thematic maps for projects greater than 10,000 acres for more regional or statewide application
Can create new or modify existing interpretations
Can use additional ortho-imagery
Can set buffer widths (from streams, for example)
Intersect with different resource layers
Can join attribute table data (to create more dynamic maps)
Can link to other soils data and create custom interpretations.

35. Locked down thematic map for Catastrophic Mortality (Trench)

36. By joining tables, Customized thematic map illustrating Limitation and Depth to Seasonal High Water Table

37. Can create and publish reports using the SDV interface

38. NASIS data “The Man behind the Curtain”
Attribute data (Physical and Chemical Properties
Interpretation Development
Rules
Evaluations
Properties