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Soil Survey Status & Issues Soil Survey Status & Issues on Public Lands on Public Lands BLM BLM Report Report Bill Ypsilantis Bill Ypsilantis National Science & Technology Center National Science & Technology Center Denver, CO Denver, CO
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Page 1: Soil Survey Status & Issues on Public Lands – BLM ReportSoil Survey Status & Issues on Public Lands – BLM Report Bill Ypsilantis National Science & Technology Center Denver, CO.

Soil Survey Status & Issues Soil Survey Status & Issues on Public Lands on Public Lands –– BLM BLM

ReportReport

Bill YpsilantisBill YpsilantisNational Science & Technology CenterNational Science & Technology Center

Denver, CODenver, CO

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BLM Management Priorities BLM Management Priorities --energyenergy

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Other Management PrioritiesOther Management Priorities

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BLM Monitoring StrategyBLM Monitoring Strategy

•• Develop strategy to Develop strategy to provide monitoring data provide monitoring data at the local, regional and at the local, regional and national scalesnational scales

•• National scale pilot National scale pilot project in central Oregon project in central Oregon using NRI and FIAusing NRI and FIA

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BLM Soil Survey NeedsBLM Soil Survey Needs

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PROXY IDENTIFICATION

Organisms (o)Climate (cl) Topography (r) Parent material (p)

PrecipitationTemperature

Vegetation mapsVegetation Indices

Unsupervised Classification

SlopeAspect

CTIElevation

Multi-spectral imagesBedrock geology

Advanced Technology in Soil Mapping

3DMapperNDVI

Spatial ModelerBand Ratio

TM

Soil Pre-map Raster Product

Supervised Classification

Knowledge Based Classification

Expert Classifier

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WildlandWildland LandscapeLandscape

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Data AccessData Access

•• Customers need the Customers need the ability to access point ability to access point data from surveysdata from surveys

•• PedonPedon data could be data could be made available on the made available on the web or through ftp siteweb or through ftp site

•• If possible it should be If possible it should be made available in a made available in a geospatial formatgeospatial format

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Develop Multimedia ProductsDevelop Multimedia Products

•• The land has a story to tellThe land has a story to tell•• Short multimedia product Short multimedia product

highlighting geomorphology, highlighting geomorphology, geology, major soil formation geology, major soil formation on the landscape, vegetation on the landscape, vegetation communities, & uses of soil communities, & uses of soil surveysurvey

•• Would help sell soil survey Would help sell soil survey program to customers and program to customers and the publicthe public

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Development of Innovative ProcessDevelopment of Innovative Process--based Interpretationsbased Interpretations

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Ecological Site Classification and Ecological Site Classification and DescriptionsDescriptions

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Research OpportunitiesResearch Opportunities

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Future goalsFuture goals

•• Eventually we want to get all our public lands Eventually we want to get all our public lands mappedmapped

•• Work on rangeland interpretations has been Work on rangeland interpretations has been interrupted but we still plan to work with NRCS interrupted but we still plan to work with NRCS in developing these and other interpretationsin developing these and other interpretations

•• BLM will continue to strongly support the BLM will continue to strongly support the National Cooperative Soil SurveyNational Cooperative Soil Survey


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