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NASIS/SSURGO PANEL Fort Collins Activity, Ken Harward, NASIS Project Manager



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NASIS/SSURGO PANEL




Fort Collins Activity, Ken Harward, NASIS Project Manager

There are currently 5 major information systems funded for development and/or maintenance work at the Information Technology Center in Fort Collins. These systems are:



  1. Program Delivery Area

    • Customer Service Toolkit (CST)

    • Soil Data Viewer (SDV)

    • Wetlands Toolkit

  2. Natural Resource Data Warehouse

    • Lighthouse Project

    • Resource Data Gateway

    • Web Soil Data Viewer

  3. Integrated Accountability System (IAS)

    • Performance and Results Measurement System (PRMS)

    • On-line Cost Accounting (TCAS/ACRES)

    • Workload Analysis (WLA)

    • Workforce Planning

    • RC&D Program Tracking

  4. National Soil Information System (NASIS)

    • NASIS release 5.0 (central server)

    • Windows Pedon

    • Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

  5. National Plant, Animal, and Ecological Site Information System

    • PLANTS

    • Interagency Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

    • Ecological Site application (ESIS)

    • VegSpec

Other activities in which ITC either has a leadership role or major involvement include:



  • Common Computing Environment (CCE)

  • Electronic Access Infrastructure (EAI – Service Center agency web farms)

  • Telecommunications Strategy & Operation

  • Data Management (standards development for Service Center agencies)

  • Technical Architectures

  • System Requirements and Design

  • Application Programming

  • Web Site Development

  • Software and Hardware Testing and Certification (including CCE certification)

  • Data Modeling, Data Administration

  • Database Administration

  • IT Acquisition Support

  • IT Implementation Support

  • System Administration

  • Security Operations

  • Life Cycle Management

  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

  • National Help Desk

SSURGO & Map Finishing-Ken Lubich, National Soil Survey Digitizing and Digital and Map Finishing Coordinator

Responses to questions:



  • Who has the final say on quality, and who really has responsibility for what?

See Part 647 NSHB on Responsibilities. The MO is responsible for quality assurance, those doing the various steps are responsible for quality control of those steps (state, DU). If issues can’t be resolved between business units they should be taken to the Soil Survey Digitizing Coordinator

  • Map finishing - should digitizing roads and streams be done by digitizing units and/or map finishing centers? After all they have the hardware, software and expertise to complete the task. States have been encouraged to not do these functions.

States are free to do these steps or pay someone else to do them. The Digitizing Units and Digital Map Finishing Sites are encouraged to work with States and if possible assist with this work on a cost for services bases.

  • When are states realistically going to send new NASIS downloads to digitizing centers for re-certifications?

Some feel they are ready now. The pressure will be on to get the data in the Field Offices and the Digitizing Units will do all they can to keep up with workload.

  • Map Finishing - what to do when soils, roads, streams and names are all on top of each other I narrow valleys at 1:24000?

Leave some off?

  • MF Centers should be using the DOQ's during their process.

They are doing that now, we also need to make sure the SSURGO data is reviewed closely to the DOQ’s before DMF, not just to the scan overlays. On screen review recommended.

  • What are the current costs to the states for getting new surveys certified?

A funding workbook is available by email request or by FTP. See Ken Lubich.

  • What financial support is available to offset a drain on state budgets?

None

  • What plans are there to update certified SSURGO counties on an as needed basis to respond to new data requirements?

All currently archived soil surveys need to be re-archived to update the tabular data with the NASIS 5.0 data. The Digitizing Units have been funded for this, and other edits can be made at this time. We hope to complete this task over a 12-month period. Beyond that it is up to the states to pay the Digitizing Units for updating SSURGO certified surveys, if they pay the bill they can determine the schedule.


  • No question here, just a comment. We went through several years of trials and tribulations with the SSURGO work until now we have a well-tuned machine that has produced over 1000 certified surveys. Even though digital map finishing is causing a similar level of headaches in its infancy, it too will soon be running wonderfully and we’ll have more maps than ever. Hang in there, and trust the folks running the show on this one!


Key points from power point presentation:

SSURGO continues to move a long. In spite of our success with this program we are proceeding at about half the rate and funding originally planned. The digitizing units are generally keeping up with the workload being sent. We need to keep working on compilation and get surveys submitted to the digitizing units. New SSURGO review and archiving AML’s will be released in April to accommodate the new data structure in the NASIS 5.0 download. The digitizing units will plan to switch over on April 9th. We will also need to re-archive all the surveys already SSURGO certified.


Good progress is be made with new technology to automate manual compilation. Some programs currently be used successfully are; OrthoMapper (stand alone software), MAPLE SYRUP (requires Erdas software) and OthoRec a free Arcview extension. Out source is another option and Montana has had some good work done by Pixxures Inc.
The Digital Map Finishing (DMF) sites have completed 19 surveys so far this FY; they have another 37 surveys in the works and 10 more at their sites ready to start. We still need to focus on getting survey in to the DMF sites. Some are looking for their next job. Reviews of data during the DMF process is indicating we need to make better use of the digital orthophotography during compilation and digitizing quality control and quality assurance reviews.




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