Acquisition Sources for downloading data from NRCS Customization Tools for interpreting soils data Application Map products

1. United States Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Amy Koch
GIS Specialist
USDA NRCS
USDA is an equal opportunity employer and provider

2. NRCS Geospatial Data and Tools
 Acquisition
 Sources for downloading data from NRCS
 Customization
 Tools for interpreting soils data
 Application
 Map products

3. NRCS Geospatial Data and Tools
 Acquisition
 Sources for downloading data from NRCS
 Customization
 Tools for interpreting soils data
 Application
 Map products

4. NRCS Geospatial Data Sources

5.  One Stop Source for environmental and
natural resources data
 Download datasets for large extents
 Multiple data layers available
 FTP downloads are free
http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov

6. http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov
 Examples of available data layers:
 Soils
 Elevation (National Elevation Dataset)
 Hydrologic Units (Watershed Boundary Dataset)
 NRCS Conservation Easements
 National census data (TIGER 2010)

7. http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov
 Soils data – available formats:
 Spatial (shapefile)
 Tabular (database)
 Gridded Soil Survey Geographic (gSSURGO)
○ Raster data layer
○ State-wide coverage
○ Data refreshed May 2014
○ Derived from vector map
○ “Ready to map” attributes

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Options available
for ordering data

10. http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/
 Source for downloading soil survey data
 Download data for individual soil survey areas
or Area of Interest (AOI)
 Upload shapefile to create custom AOI
 One-click free download (zip file)

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IMPORTANT !
Browser
requirements

12. http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/
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13. NRCS Geospatial Data and Tools
 Acquisition
 Sources for downloading data from NRCS
 Customization
 Tools for interpreting soils data
 Application
 Map products

14. Soil Data Viewer
 Simple tool for joining spatial and tabular data
 Runs as Add-in to ArcMap
 Creates soil-based thematic maps
 Soil properties
 Interpretations
 Uses survey data from Web Soil Survey
 Only one survey can be loaded at a time

15. Soil Data Viewer
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/soils/home/?cid=nrcs142p2_053620

16. Soil Data Viewer

17. SoilWeb (UC Davis)
 Google Earth interface
 Utilizes NRCS soil data
 Available as online soil browser
 Smartphone App (iPhone and Droid)
http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soilweb/

19. NRCS Geospatial Data and Tools
 Acquisition
 Sources for downloading data from NRCS
 Customization
 Tools for interpreting soils data
 Application
 Map products

21. NRCS geospatial data and tools
 Geospatial Data Gateway
 One Stop Source for environmental and natural resources geodata
 http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/
 Web Soil Survey
 Interactive tool for making customized soil maps
 http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/
 Soil Data Viewer
 ArcGIS Add-In for merging spatial and tabular data
 SoilWeb (UC Davis)
 Google Earth interface
 http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soilweb/

22. Need more information?
 Contact me:
Amy Saunders Koch
Hilo Federal Building
Room 305
808-933-8351
amy.koch@hi.usda.gov
 Learn more:
 Geospatial Data Gateway
 Web Soil Survey
 Soil Data Viewer
 SoilWeb
 www.nrcs.usda.gov
USDA is an equal opportunity employer and provider