Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Troy Kashon Soil Resources Program Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Colorado State University
Mapping the Soils of Our National Parks A Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit in partnership with the National Park Service Eugene F. Kelly, PhD – Principal Investigator
Colorado State University Soil Resources Program
Colorado State University and the National Park Service have entered into a Cooperative Agreement with the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences to support the NPS Soil Resources Inventory and to assist the agency with the use of soils data and the development of innovative approaches of the utilization of soils information and analytical tools. The CSU Soil Resources Program is obtaining applicable soil surveys and information for 270 + National Parks.
Colorado State University Soil Resources Program Team •
Dr. Eugene F. Kelly, Principal Investigator
•
Judy Daniels, Project Manager
•
Troy Kashon, Data Manager
•
Michael O’Konski, Graphic Manager
•
Danelle Malget, GIS Manager
NPS Soil Resources Inventory • Pete Biggam NPS Soil Scientist NPS Soils Program Manager • Sue Southard USDA-NRCS Soil Scientist National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE
Our Goal… Promote the use of soils information by the National Park Service, Researchers, Students, and the public.
What We Do Create and deliver GIS and Non-GIS based products that provides invaluable soils information to the National Park Service, researchers, students and to the public.
Why Use Our Products • Our data can help answer issues involving: • Global Climate Change • Soils Preservation • Soils Conservation
What We Create • • • • • •
“Smart” Welcome Page Customized Soil Survey Manuscript Access Database Spatial information (Maps, Geodatabase) Customized Soil Tool Customized Reports • Ecological Site Descriptions Report • Soil Map Unit Distribution Report • Map Unit Descriptions • Pedon Descriptions
Product Development Time • National Resource Conservation Service collaboration time – 3 to 5 years • CSU Soil Resources Program Final Report – 4 to 6 months or 1200 man hours
Overview -
Independent Pieces but all Inter-Related
“Smart” Welcome Page Pedon Descriptions Map Unit Descriptions Customized Soil Survey Manuscript Access Database Customized Reports • Ecological Site Descriptions Report • Soil Map Unit Distribution Report • Spatial information (Maps, Geodatabase) • Customized Soil Tool • • • • • •
“Smart” Welcome Page Lassen Volcanic NP Welcome Page Non GIS Product Keystone Product Glue that holds the project together
Pedon Descriptions The smallest unit or volume of soil that contains all the soil horizons of a particular soil type, usually having a surface area of 10.76 square feet or approximately 1 square meter and extending from the ground surface down to bedrock. American Heritage Dictionary
Pedon Descriptions
Map Unit Descriptions A map unit is a collection of areas defined and named the same in terms of their soil components or miscellaneous areas or both. Each map unit differs in some respect from all others in a survey area and is uniquely identified on a soil map. Each individual area on the map is a delineation. NRCS – Soil Survey Manual – Chapter 2
Map Unit Descriptions
Soil Survey Manuscript Big Bend NP Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Park Report Non-distilled version of everything
Access Database • •
•
NRCS Supplied dataset SRP creates: • 39 Dominant Soil Based Tables • 3 Map Unit Level Tables • 12 Soil Data Viewer Tables
Tabular Reports
Access Database – Dominant Soil Based •
Account for the miscellaneous area types • • • •
•
•
Rock outcrops Water Beach Lava flow…
Accounts for 100% composition of the soil dynamics while identifying the dominant soil type. Contains a plethora of soil attribute information
Access Database – Decision Support Includes but not limited to: • • • • • •
• •
Land Management (Erosion Factors) Land Classification (ESDs) Physical / Chemical Properties (Organic Matter, pH) Climate (Temperature & Precipitation) Carbon (Sequestration) Qualities and Features (Depth to Bedrock & Parent Material) Building Site Development (Corrosion) Taxonomic Classifications (Shrink Swell Clays)
Customized Reports – Decision Support Includes: • •
Ecological Site Descriptions Soil Map Unit Distribution • Map Unit Descriptions • Ecological Site Descriptions
Ecological Site Description (ESD) Reports The data comprising a ecological site description is presented in four major categories: • Site Characteristics (Climate, Soil, Water Features) • Plant Communities ( Common Plant Communities) • Site Interpretations (Management of the Soil) • Supporting Information (Sources of Information)
Ecological Site Description (ESD) Reports
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports Information Aggregation… A Mashup of Data • Customized Navigation within the Digital Map Finished File • Map Unit Descriptions • Delineation Maps (Extent of the Map Unit within the Park) • Ecological Site Descriptions
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports Big Bend NP
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Overview - Independent Pieces but all Inter-Related “Smart” Welcome Page Pedon Descriptions Map Unit Descriptions Customized Soil Survey Manuscript Access Database Customized Reports • Ecological Site Descriptions Report • Soil Map Unit Distribution Report • Spatial information (Maps, Geodatabase) • Customized Soil Tool • • • • • •
What Makes Up Our GIS • Pedon Descriptions • Map Unit Descriptions • Manuscript • Database
GIS Mapping Products •
ArcMap Document
•
File Geodatabase
•
FGDC compliant Metadata
GIS Based Database • 39 Dominant Soil themes • 3 Map Unit Level themes • 12 Soil Data Viewer themes • Base Data • Imagery
ArcMap Products for Decision Support Rocky Mountain NP • Organic Matter theme • Soil Physical Properties
ArcMap Products for Decision Support Rocky Mountain NP • Potential Erosion Hazard by Water (Road & Trail) theme • Land Management • Soil Erosion Issues
ArcMap Products for Decision Support Great Basin NP • Soil Organic Carbon theme • Carbon Sequestration
ArcMap Products for Decision Support
Lassen Volcanic NP • Soil pH theme - Soil Chemical Interactions
Overview • • • • • •
• •
-
Independent Pieces but all Inter-Related “Smart” Welcome Page Pedon Descriptions Map Unit Descriptions Customized Soil Survey Manuscript Access Database Customized Reports • Ecological Site Descriptions Report • Soil Map Unit Distribution Report Spatial information (Maps, Geodatabase) Customized Soil Tool
Soil Tools • The CSU Soil Program has developed a toolset that allows users to interactively access geospatial soils data • The tool provides access to the map unit and ecological site descriptions and pedon descriptions • The current toolset includes a MapUnit Identify Tool and a Pedon Identify Tool
Soil Tools – Map Unit Craters of the Moon NM • Detailed Soils Layer • Soil Pedon Layer
Soil Tools – Map Unit Craters of the Moon NM • Detailed Soils Layer • Soil Pedon Layer
Soil Tools – Map Unit
Soil Tools – ESD
Soil Tools – Pedon Craters of the Moon NM • Detailed Soils Layer • Soil Pedon Layer
Soil Tools – Pedon Craters of the Moon NM • Detailed Soils Layer • Soil Pedon Layer
Soil Tools – Pedon
What you can do with our products Our data can still help answer these issues, plus many more: • Global Climate Change • Soils Preservation • Soils Conservation
Only by having reliable scientific information can park managers take corrective actions before those impacts severely degrade ecosystem integrity or become irreversible
So Now You’re Thinking
Where Can I Get This Amazing Dataset?
It’s Not Available In Any Store
Accessing Our Data •
CSU Soil Resources Program Website
•
NPS Data Store Website
Accessing Our Data – CSU Soil Resources Program Website • http://soilresourcesprogram.agsci.colostate.edu/
Accessing Our Data – CSU Web Mapping http://soilresourcesprogram.agsci.colostate.edu/
Accessing Our Data – CSU Web Mapping
Accessing Our Data - NPS NPS Data Store Website • https://irma.nps.gov/App/Portal/Home
NPS Resource Websites Soil Resource Management in the National Parks • http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/soils/index.cfm Soil Resources Inventory • http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/soils/
Questions
Websites Soil Resources Program Website • http://soilresourcesprogram.agsci.colostate.edu/ NPS Data Store Website • https://irma.nps.gov/App/Portal/Home Soil Resource Management in the National Parks • http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/soils/index.cfm Soil Resources Inventory • http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/soils/
Mapping the Soils of Our National Parks A Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit in partnership with the National Park Service Eugene F. Kelly, PhD – Principal Investigator
Colorado State University Soil Resources Program
Colorado State University and the National Park Service have entered into a Cooperative Agreement with the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences to support the NPS Soil Resources Inventory and to assist the agency with the use of soils data and the development of innovative approaches of the utilization of soils information and analytical tools. The CSU Soil Resources Program is obtaining applicable soil surveys and information for 270 + National Parks.
Colorado State University Soil Resources Program Team •
Dr. Eugene F. Kelly, Principal Investigator
•
Judy Daniels, Project Manager
•
Troy Kashon, Data Manager
•
Michael O’Konski, Graphic Manager
•
Danelle Malget, GIS Manager
NPS Soil Resources Inventory • Pete Biggam NPS Soil Scientist NPS Soils Program Manager • Sue Southard USDA-NRCS Soil Scientist National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE
Our Goal… Promote the use of soils information by the National Park Service, Researchers, Students, and the public.
What We Do Create and deliver GIS and Non-GIS based products that provides invaluable soils information to the National Park Service, researchers, students and to the public.
Why Use Our Products • Our data can help answer issues involving: • Global Climate Change • Soils Preservation • Soils Conservation
What We Create • • • • • •
“Smart” Welcome Page Customized Soil Survey Manuscript Access Database Spatial information (Maps, Geodatabase) Customized Soil Tool Customized Reports • Ecological Site Descriptions Report • Soil Map Unit Distribution Report • Map Unit Descriptions • Pedon Descriptions
Product Development Time • National Resource Conservation Service collaboration time – 3 to 5 years • CSU Soil Resources Program Final Report – 4 to 6 months or 1200 man hours
Overview -
Independent Pieces but all Inter-Related
“Smart” Welcome Page Pedon Descriptions Map Unit Descriptions Customized Soil Survey Manuscript Access Database Customized Reports • Ecological Site Descriptions Report • Soil Map Unit Distribution Report • Spatial information (Maps, Geodatabase) • Customized Soil Tool • • • • • •
“Smart” Welcome Page Lassen Volcanic NP Welcome Page Non GIS Product Keystone Product Glue that holds the project together
Pedon Descriptions The smallest unit or volume of soil that contains all the soil horizons of a particular soil type, usually having a surface area of 10.76 square feet or approximately 1 square meter and extending from the ground surface down to bedrock. American Heritage Dictionary
Pedon Descriptions
Map Unit Descriptions A map unit is a collection of areas defined and named the same in terms of their soil components or miscellaneous areas or both. Each map unit differs in some respect from all others in a survey area and is uniquely identified on a soil map. Each individual area on the map is a delineation. NRCS – Soil Survey Manual – Chapter 2
Map Unit Descriptions
Soil Survey Manuscript Big Bend NP Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Park Report Non-distilled version of everything
Access Database • •
•
NRCS Supplied dataset SRP creates: • 39 Dominant Soil Based Tables • 3 Map Unit Level Tables • 12 Soil Data Viewer Tables
Tabular Reports
Access Database – Dominant Soil Based •
Account for the miscellaneous area types • • • •
•
•
Rock outcrops Water Beach Lava flow…
Accounts for 100% composition of the soil dynamics while identifying the dominant soil type. Contains a plethora of soil attribute information
Access Database – Decision Support Includes but not limited to: • • • • • •
• •
Land Management (Erosion Factors) Land Classification (ESDs) Physical / Chemical Properties (Organic Matter, pH) Climate (Temperature & Precipitation) Carbon (Sequestration) Qualities and Features (Depth to Bedrock & Parent Material) Building Site Development (Corrosion) Taxonomic Classifications (Shrink Swell Clays)
Customized Reports – Decision Support Includes: • •
Ecological Site Descriptions Soil Map Unit Distribution • Map Unit Descriptions • Ecological Site Descriptions
Ecological Site Description (ESD) Reports The data comprising a ecological site description is presented in four major categories: • Site Characteristics (Climate, Soil, Water Features) • Plant Communities ( Common Plant Communities) • Site Interpretations (Management of the Soil) • Supporting Information (Sources of Information)
Ecological Site Description (ESD) Reports
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports Information Aggregation… A Mashup of Data • Customized Navigation within the Digital Map Finished File • Map Unit Descriptions • Delineation Maps (Extent of the Map Unit within the Park) • Ecological Site Descriptions
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports Big Bend NP
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Soil Map Unit Distribution Reports
Overview - Independent Pieces but all Inter-Related “Smart” Welcome Page Pedon Descriptions Map Unit Descriptions Customized Soil Survey Manuscript Access Database Customized Reports • Ecological Site Descriptions Report • Soil Map Unit Distribution Report • Spatial information (Maps, Geodatabase) • Customized Soil Tool • • • • • •
What Makes Up Our GIS • Pedon Descriptions • Map Unit Descriptions • Manuscript • Database
GIS Mapping Products •
ArcMap Document
•
File Geodatabase
•
FGDC compliant Metadata
GIS Based Database • 39 Dominant Soil themes • 3 Map Unit Level themes • 12 Soil Data Viewer themes • Base Data • Imagery
ArcMap Products for Decision Support Rocky Mountain NP • Organic Matter theme • Soil Physical Properties
ArcMap Products for Decision Support Rocky Mountain NP • Potential Erosion Hazard by Water (Road & Trail) theme • Land Management • Soil Erosion Issues
ArcMap Products for Decision Support Great Basin NP • Soil Organic Carbon theme • Carbon Sequestration
ArcMap Products for Decision Support
Lassen Volcanic NP • Soil pH theme - Soil Chemical Interactions
Overview • • • • • •
• •
-
Independent Pieces but all Inter-Related “Smart” Welcome Page Pedon Descriptions Map Unit Descriptions Customized Soil Survey Manuscript Access Database Customized Reports • Ecological Site Descriptions Report • Soil Map Unit Distribution Report Spatial information (Maps, Geodatabase) Customized Soil Tool
Soil Tools • The CSU Soil Program has developed a toolset that allows users to interactively access geospatial soils data • The tool provides access to the map unit and ecological site descriptions and pedon descriptions • The current toolset includes a MapUnit Identify Tool and a Pedon Identify Tool
Soil Tools – Map Unit Craters of the Moon NM • Detailed Soils Layer • Soil Pedon Layer
Soil Tools – Map Unit Craters of the Moon NM • Detailed Soils Layer • Soil Pedon Layer
Soil Tools – Map Unit
Soil Tools – ESD
Soil Tools – Pedon Craters of the Moon NM • Detailed Soils Layer • Soil Pedon Layer
Soil Tools – Pedon Craters of the Moon NM • Detailed Soils Layer • Soil Pedon Layer
Soil Tools – Pedon
What you can do with our products Our data can still help answer these issues, plus many more: • Global Climate Change • Soils Preservation • Soils Conservation
Only by having reliable scientific information can park managers take corrective actions before those impacts severely degrade ecosystem integrity or become irreversible
So Now You’re Thinking
Where Can I Get This Amazing Dataset?
It’s Not Available In Any Store
Accessing Our Data •
CSU Soil Resources Program Website
•
NPS Data Store Website
Accessing Our Data – CSU Soil Resources Program Website • http://soilresourcesprogram.agsci.colostate.edu/
Accessing Our Data – CSU Web Mapping http://soilresourcesprogram.agsci.colostate.edu/
Accessing Our Data – CSU Web Mapping
Accessing Our Data - NPS NPS Data Store Website • https://irma.nps.gov/App/Portal/Home
NPS Resource Websites Soil Resource Management in the National Parks • http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/soils/index.cfm Soil Resources Inventory • http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/soils/
Questions
Websites Soil Resources Program Website • http://soilresourcesprogram.agsci.colostate.edu/ NPS Data Store Website • https://irma.nps.gov/App/Portal/Home Soil Resource Management in the National Parks • http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/soils/index.cfm Soil Resources Inventory • http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/soils/
