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
BLM Management Priorities BLM Management Priorities --energyenergy
Other Management PrioritiesOther Management Priorities
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
BLM Soil Survey NeedsBLM Soil Survey Needs
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
WildlandWildland LandscapeLandscape
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
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
Development of Innovative ProcessDevelopment of Innovative Process--based Interpretationsbased Interpretations
Ecological Site Classification and Ecological Site Classification and DescriptionsDescriptions
Research OpportunitiesResearch Opportunities
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