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Soil and Environmental GIS Data to Support ETDM
Collaborators
PI:
S. Grunwald, Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida
Co-PIs:
W.G. Harris, Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida
G.W. Hurt, Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida
Technical
support:
S.A. Bloom
R. Rivero
V. Ramasundaram
Time
05/2003 to 05/2004
Funding Source
Florida Department of Transportation
Summary
From the early 1970s until 1996, the Accelerated Soil Survey Program
provided funding for extensive soil mapping in Florida. Thousands of
pedons were sampled and analyzed at the Environmental Pedology Laboratory
(University of Florida, Soil and Water Science Department). These data
represent the most comprehensive body of knowledge ever collected for
Florida soils. In this project, we standardized, integrated and
geo-referenced the Florida soil data comprising about 1,300 soil profiles
and 8,325 horizons distributed in 58 of 67 counties. The indexed
data were ported to a web-based MSSQL database. The dataset includes soil
profile descriptions (morphological data), soil taxonomic information,
latitude and longitude, and 144 different physical and chemical soil
properties. The interactive web interface enables users to query the
database by soil characteristics and geographic attributes. The
interactive soil maps were implemented in ArcIMS.
Objectives
(1) Develop
an interactive, web-based GIS environment for displaying, selecting, and
querying soil
characterization data across Florida.
(2) Develop four Statewide GIS soil layers (a) Hydric
soils, (b) High water table, (c) Shallow limestone,
and (d) Deep sandy soils (well-drained
soils).
Results
http://flsoils.ifas.ufl.edu
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