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USDA/NRCS National Soil Survey Center announces the release of US soil
property maps. More details given herebelow.
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Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:59 PM
Subject: GlobalSoilMaps Released
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USDA/NRCS National Soil Survey Center announces the release of US soil
property maps that meet the GlobalSoilMap standards for Tier 2 requirements
by providing estimated soil properties on block average (100x100m) grid
cell size. The estimated soil properties are organic carbon, pH 1:5 water,
clay, silt, sand, coarse fragments, ECEC, bulk density (for < than 2 mm
soil fraction and whole soil), available water capacity, and soil depth.
Each soil property is represented by mean or representative values (R),
with upper (H) and lower (L) limit values also considered as 90% Confidence
Intervals (90% CI). The estimated soil properties are provided for 6
standard soil thickness layers (0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm, 30-60 cm, 60-100
cm and 100-200 cm).
The released products are based on U.S. Soil General Map – STATSGO2
(Version 0.1) and Soil Survey geographic database – SSURGO filled in with
STATSGO2 (Version 0.5). The support data for GSM V0.1 and V0.5 is the same
as those for gridded STATSGO2 and gridded SSURGO respectively. However, the
data processing for GSM versions follows the GSM specifications and differs
from gSTATSGO2 and gSSURGO with respect to standardized soil thickness that
are derived from spline function, grid resolution, soil property units, and
projections. The use of this data is subject to the same limitations as
those specified for STASGO2 and SSURGO. The data is available at:
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Additional information on GlobalSoilMap, SSURGO, and gSSURGO can be found
online at:
Description of the Global Soil Map Database
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Description of the SSURGO Database
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Description of the gSSURGO Database
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The raster map layers can be viewed in several online web service platforms
that are WMS, which allows use from a broader range of client applications
such as QGIS, ArcGIS Java Script Arc Map, Arc GIS Explorer, AutoCad Civil
3D, Google Earth, Geoportal Map Viewer, and ERDAS Apollo. The raster map
layer data can be readily combined with other national regional and local
raster layers, e.g. National Land Cover Database (NLCD), the National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Crop Data Layer, or National
Elevation Dataset (NED).
Scientists from the NSSC in Lincoln, Nebraska; Geospatial Data Unit and the
West Virginia University in Morgantown; and USGS Earth Resources
Observation and Science Center (EROS) in Sioux Fall, South Dakota developed
the database while USDA-NRCS National Geospatial Center of Excellence
(NGCE) in Ft. Worth, Texas compiled and released the database suitable for
various delivery platforms.
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