Soil Data Viewer 6.0for ArcGIS 10.0

2013 IGIC ConferenceMuncie, Indiana

Chris Morse, NRCS State GIS CoordinatorRick Neilson, Assistant State Soil Scientist

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Overview

• Soil Data Viewer can be used to create reports and thematic maps associated with soil attributes, typically at the map unit level

• SDV 6.0 is compatible with ArcGIS 10.0– 6.1 is in development for use with 10.1 and up

• Demonstrate how to download, setup, and use SSURGO data with SDV

• Demonstrate how to load SDV toolbar into ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Topics

• Soil Data Mart Downloads (10 minutes)• Database Set Up (5 minutes)• SDV 6.0 Add-In Procedure (5 minutes)• Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap (10 minutes)• Questions (5 minutes)

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Soil Data Mart

• Current NRCS site for public download of SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic) GIS data

http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov• Soil Data Mart will be shutting down in the near

future• Download access will be moving to Web Soil

Survey (WSS) at WSS 3.0 releasehttp://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov

(Current WSS release is 2.3)

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Soil Data Mart

• Downloading Indiana data to use with SDV 6.0– Download Spatial AND Tabular (database) files– Download Shapefiles• File Geodatabases are not supported by SDV 6.0, but will

be supported in SDV 6.1 (in development)– Select the Indiana Template Access 2002 Database,

latest version (version 33 as of 4/26/13)– Select a coordinate system for best compatibility

with your work and the geographic location of interest

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

(DEMO)

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Soil Data Mart

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Soil Data Mart

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Soil Data Mart

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Soil Data Mart

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Soil Data Mart

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Soil Data Mart

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Sample E-mail

Downloading in Web Soil Survey 3.0

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

(Link pending final release)

Downloading in Web Soil Survey 3.0

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Set options and links areavailable on the page

Database Set Up

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Database Set Up

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Database Set Up

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Database first time run and import

Database Set Up

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Import complete; close Access database when done

SDV 6.0 Add-In Procedure

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• Close ArcGIS if running• Install Soil Data Viewer 6.0 (requires admin)– Download links and instructions at:

http://soils.usda.gov/sdv/download60.html• Run the ESRI Add-In file to add an SDV launch

icon to ArcMap 10.0 (does not require admin)• Customize ArcMap menus to activate/display

the SDV toolbar/button

SDV 6.0 Add-In Procedure

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• After install, the ESRI Add-In file is found at:C:\Program Files (x86)\USDA\Soil Data Viewer 6.0

• Double-click SDVArcMapAddin.esriAddIn• Click Install Add-In• Close the installer if it does not

close automatically

SDV 6.0 Add-In Procedure

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• Start ArcMap• Enter Customize Mode• Activate the SDV Toolbar

• A one button toolbar appears

• Dock the toolbar/button

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• Add soil polygon map unit data to the map• (Optional) Use Clip from ArcToolbox to extract

an area of interest from the larger survey– Requires another polygon file to be created for use

as the clipping extent• Activate Soil Data Viewer from the toolbar

button• Select soil layer from the map to use as the

spatial component

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• Select soil layer from the map to use as the spatial component

• Select soil tabular database to associate with the spatial layer– This is the database we built earlier, stored in the

tabular folder if you followed these instructions

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• If SDV was previously used with a different survey area, a soil unit mismatch error message will appear instead. Click OK to bypass the message.

• If you get the error message and bypass it, you need to click the folder on the Database line in the next window and navigate to a SSURGO database that corresponds to your spatial data

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• When spatial and tabular data are synced, the status in the lower right is green

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• When spatial and tabular data are not synced, the status in the lower right is red

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• Basic Mode > Select a folder and topic report• Click Report for a report, Map for a map

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• Example Report

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• Example Map

Using SDV 6.0 with ArcMap

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

• Use Data > Export Data to make permanent

Questions?

Helping People Help the LandUSDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.