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Web Soil Survey
Lenore Matula Vasilas
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
What is Web Soil Survey?
• Web application that provides the user electronic access to relevant soil and related information needed to make use and management decisions about the land.
What Does Web Soil Survey Do?
• Provides alternative to traditional hardcopy soil survey publications
• Provides means for quicker delivery of the most current information
• Provides electronic access via a web site to full soil survey report contents
• Allows users to get just the information they want
Web Soil Survey Products
• Soil Map on Orthophoto background• Soil Data Mart tables for map units in area
of interest• Downloadable SSURGO data for use in
GIS system• Standard Soil Survey Manuscript in .pdf
format• Thematic Maps• Customized Soil Resource Reports
Using Web Soil Survey
• soils.usda.gov
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