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