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National Cooperative Soil SurveyNational Cooperative Soil SurveyNCSSNCSSNRCSNRCS
Natural Resources Conservation ServiceNatural Resources Conservation Service
Status of the National Soil Geographic Database
(NSGD)
Darrell KautzNSSC Geospatial Research Unit
(formerly, National Geospatial Development Center)
Morgantown, WV
March 30, 2010 12010 National State Soil Scientist Workshop
Columbia, South Carolina
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National Soil Geographic Database
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• Transactional subsystem• National database• Logically integrated with NASIS
– Shared concepts– Logical relationships and linkages
• Quasi physically integrated with NASIS– ‘Access’ to NASIS data
NASIS Spatial
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Analysis Team
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Cleveland Watts MO Leader/SSS, MO5/Kansas
Darrell Kautz Nat. Resource Specialist/Business Analyst, NSSC GRU
Jennifer Sweet Soil Scientist, Soil Geodatabases Team, NCGC
Jim Fortner Soil Scientist, NSSC
Jon Gerken Soil Scientist/Assistant Program Manager, NHQ
Jon Wiedenfeld Soil Scientist/SSO Leader, Texas
Mike Hansen Assistant SSS, Montana/National SSURGO Coordinator
Sharon Waltman Soil Scientist/Spatial Data Specialist, NSSC GRU
Whityn Owen Cartographer, MO1/Oregon
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Objectives
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• Document detailed requirements– What we want the system to do
– Minimum capabilities for initial release
– Future capabilities for future releases
• ‘Bridge’ to ITC– System analysis
– Design and development
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Business Processes
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• Plan and manage projects
• Do projects
• Publish new versions of SSA data– Including progressive publication
• Track progress
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Plan and Manage Projects
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• Analyze existing data and resource conditions
• Define and setup projects
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Plan and Manage Projects
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• Analysis– Capability to export transactional spatial
data for area of interest• One-way street: data out
– Analysis environment• Local computer
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Local Computer
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• Data– Corresponding extent in NASIS local database
– Local ancillary data and imagery
• Analysis tools– ArcMap, Access, SQL Management Studio, special
purpose NASIS export reports, etc.
– GIS and DSM models and technologies
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Plan and Manage Projects
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• Define and setup projects– Capability to digitize and store Project Areas
• Where – location and extent of project
• Linked to project record in NASIS
– Capability to digitize and store Work Areas within a Project Area• Portion of Project Area
• Where by planning period and/or by staff
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Work Areas
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• Mechanism/structure to manage edit authority to the fabric of soil map unit features– ‘NASIS Group’ with authority to check out
and edit features
– No spatial edits required no group assigned to Work Area
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Initial Soil Survey Project
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Update Soil Survey Project
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Project Area and Work Areas
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• Track progress spatially
• Requirement of Soil Survey Schedule Analysis Team– “...designate on a map where activities …
occur. It is preferred that this be a national coverage so that progress can be summarized more efficiently.”
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STATUS of Map Unit Features
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• Track progress spatially
• Map unit feature level attribute– Track progress throughout the project and
publication workflow
– Trigger QC, QA, and publication processes
– Identify publication-ready features
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STATUS – Initial State
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• UNMAP – not mapped
• NODIG – mapped but no digital spatial data– Current SDM ‘tabular-only’
• PUB – published mapping– Current SDM ‘tabular and spatial’
• DRAFT – current transactional data under development in SSOs and POs
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STATUS – Initial Soil Survey
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UNMAP
PREMAP
DRAFT (linked to NASIS map unit)
QC_READY (QC_REJECT)
QA_READY (QA_REJECT)
PUB_READY
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STATUS – Update Soil Survey
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PUB
DRAFT
QC_READY (QC_REJECT)
QA_READY (QA_REJECT)
PUB_READY
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Track Progress Spatially
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• Summarize progress by STATUS, Work Area, and Project Area– By planning period and/or staff
• Summarize progress by STATUS and SSA, State, MO, or other area types
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Do Projects
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• Create/update/replace spatial data
• QC/QA
• Communicate
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Create/Edit/Replace Spatial Data
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• Authority ?– ‘NASIS Group’ assigned to the Work Area
• Available ?– No overlapping check outs allowed
• Check Out
– Two-way street: out, edit, check in
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Create/Edit/Replace Spatial Data
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• Edit environment– ArcMap on local computer
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Create/Edit/Replace Spatial Data
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• Track correlation decisions spatially– Progressive correlation history
– Compliment/integrate with existing NASIS correlation tracking
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QC/QA
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• Logical quality of the spatial data– Soil science
• Analysis– Export capability
– Analysis environment
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Communicate
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• Capability to record digital survey flags– Mapped points with categorized notes
• Not point data
– Communication • Within/between SSOs or POs
• Between different levels of responsibility
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TSS and CTA
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• Capability to record digital survey flags– Mapping errors or issues observed during
field visits• Digital solution to the “official field office copy”
of the soil survey manuscript
– Communication between users and makers
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Publish New Version of SSA Data
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• QC/QA
• Publication processing
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QC/QA
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• Physical quality of the spatial data– Geographic science
– Standards vs. guidelines
• Errors and problems fixed in the transactional database
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Publication Processing
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• Current DU processes and tools
• Complexities due to not all features within a SSA being at the same STATUS– Progressive post of initial SSA
– Multiple update projects within a SSA
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STATUS – Post-publication
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PUB_READY
PUB
• Always know which transactional features represent the current published features
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Timeline
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• FY10 Q1: start Requirements phase of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• FY10 Q3-4: engage ITC system analysts and architects– Continuation of Requirements phase
– Define scope of initial release
• FY11 Q1: begin Design phase of SDLC