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Service Description: This service displays the Effective Cation Exchange Capacity theme from the GSM v0.5 based on Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO) filled in with STATSGO2 for missing SSURGO data. The Effective Cation Exchange Capacity theme is displayed by three property values; high, low and representative. Each value displays the depth range in cm.

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Layers: Description: The ecec (effective cation exchange capacity) table is designed to facilitate thematic mapping. The table is national in extent and can be used in conjunction with the GSM Version 0.5 grid to map effective cation exchange capacity (ecec). The "h", "l", and "r" correspond to "high", "low" and "representative" property values. The "l" represents the minimum low value of all the components within each map unit and is used as an approximate lower confidence limit estimate for the map unit at each depth. For the lower estimate above the representative value "r" (due to incomplete population of high and low values in SSURGO, and anomalies in the spline), the lower estimate was set to null. The "h" represents the maximum value of all the components within each map unit and is used as an approximate upper confidence limit estimate for the map unit at each depth. For the upper estimate above the representative value "r" (due to incomplete population of high and low values in SSURGO, and anomalies in the spline), the upper estimate was set to null. The table can be attached to the raster map layer data using the common "mukeyint" for spatial mapping. This table represents ecec (effective cation exchange capacity) soil property.
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mukeyint: Map unit identification key
source: SSURGO or STATSGO2
count30m: Number of pixels in the map unit
km2: Area in km2 of map unit extent
muname: Descriptive map unit name
mu_ecec_l_meq_100gF_000_005: effective cation exchange capacity for 0-5 cm soil thickness
mu_ecec_l_meq_100gF_005_015: effective cation exchange capacity for 5-15 cm soil thickness
mu_ecec_l_meq_100gF_015_030: effective cation exchange capacity for 15-30 cm soil thickness
mu_ecec_l_meq_100gF_030_060: effective cation exchange capacity for 30-60 cm soil thickness
mu_ecec_l_meq_100gF_060_100: effective cation exchange capacity for 60-100 cm soil thickness
mu_ecec_l_meq_100gF_100_200: effective cation exchange capacity for 100-200 cm soil thickness
mu_ecec_l_meq_100gF_000_999: effective cation exchange capacity for total soil thickness prior to spline
mu_ecec_l_meq_100gF_rootzone: effective cation exchange capacity for total soil thickness available to root zone
effective elecectric conductivity units: milliequivalents per 100 grams of a soil.
The U.S. National Soil Survey Center (NSSC) uses pH-7 amonium acetate cation extraction (CEC7) to estimate ECEC for pH values greater than 5.5, and adds 1N KCl extractable Aluminum to that estimate for pH less than 5.5 to approximate ECEC (Soil Survey Laboratory, Staff, 1996; West and Libohova, 2012). Thus ECEC is largely unattributed in the STATSGO2 database where pH is greater than 5.5, hence CEC7 can be used as ECEC above pH 5.5 (West and Libohova, 2012). ECEC (CEC7 + Acidity) was well-attributed at or below pH 5.5 ECEC property values were combined with the CEC values above pH 5.5 to get estimates for all the map units Horizon values for each component (soil type) were selecected only where the data were not missing and the component kind was not ‘Miscellaneous area’. Miscellaneous areas were excluded since they are dominantly occupied by non-soil materials. The values for each soil type profile were fit with an equal-area continuous smoothing spline. (Bishop et al., 1999; Odgers et al., 2012) with a smoothing parameter, lambda, set at 0.1 for all properties. The generated spline was used to set property estimates at the GlobalSoilMap standard depth intervals (are 0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm, 30-60 cm, 60-100 cm, and 100-200 cm (GlobalSoilMap, 2012). For instances where splined values exceeded the lower and upper bounds the property estimate was “capped” at the nearest sensible bound. The representative standard depth estimates for each profile (i.e. component or soil type), were weighted within each map unit (i.e. group of components mapped together), using the component percentage by area of the map unit as the weights. Miscellaneous areas (non-soil materials) did not contribute to the map unit weighted average so the weighted mean represents only the soils in each map unit. The remaining soil components were scaled to represent 100% of the map unit and weighted accordingly in the calculation of the map unit average. Values for map units dominated by non-soil material, or with more than 50% as ‘Miscellaneous area’ were set to null.

Horizon values for each component (soil type) were selected only where the data were not missing and the component kind was not ‘Miscellaneous area’. Miscellaneous areas were excluded since they are dominantly occupied by non-soil materials. Major miscellanous areas include badlands, beaches, chutes, cinder lands, dams, dumps, dune lands, glaciers, gullied land, lava flows, mined lands, oil-waste land, pits, playas, riverwash, rock outcrop, rubble land, slickens, urban land and water. Detailed descriptions of each category can be found in the National Soil Survey Handbook, Part 627 - Legend Development and Data Collection, Subpart B - 627.10 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. National soil survey handbook, title 430-VI [http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/ref/?cid=nrcs142p2_054242 (accessed 14 February 2018)]. The values for each soil type profile were fit with an equal-area continuous smoothing spline. (Bishop et al., 1999; Odgers et al., 2012) with a smoothing parameter, lambda, set at 0.1 for all properties. The generated spline was used to set property estimates at the GlobalSoilMap standard depth intervals (0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm, 30-60 cm, 60-100 cm, and 100-200 cm, (GlobalSoilMap, 2012)). For instances where splined values exceeded the lower and upper bounds the property estimate was “capped” at the nearest sensible bound. The representative standard depth estimates for each profile (i.e. component or soil type), were weighted within each map unit (i.e. group of components mapped together), using the component percentage by area of the map unit as the weights. Miscellaneous areas (non-soil materials) did not contribute to the map unit weighted average so the weighted mean represents only the soils in each map unit. The remaining soil components were scaled to represent 100% of the map unit and weighted accordingly in the calculation of the map unit average. Values for map units dominated by non-soil material, or with more than 50% as ‘Miscellaneous area’ were set to null.

Use Limitations: This dataset is not designed for use as a primary regulatory tool in permitting or siting decisions, but may be used as a reference source. This is public information and may be interpreted by organizations, agencies, units of government, or others based on needs; however, they are responsible for the appropriate application. Federal, State, or local regulatory bodies are not to reassign to the Natural Resources Conservation Service any authority for the decisions that they make. The Natural Resources Conservation Service will not perform any evaluations of these maps for purposes related solely to State or local regulatory programs. Digital data files are periodically updated. Files are dated, and users are responsible for obtaining the latest version of the data.
Scale Range: Maximum (zoomed in) 1:24,000, Minimum (zoomed out) 1:1,500,000
Citations: Bliss, N., Thompson, J., Hempel, J., Libohova, Z., 2017. GlobalSoilMap Version 0.5: Soil property maps from the State Soil geography (SSURGO) Database filled in with General Soil Map Database (STATSG02) database for the lower 48 states, USA.
Purpose: Providing the public with a GSM v0.5 electic conductivity theme service.
Creation Date: 2015
Publication Date: 20180410
Revision Date:
Refresh Cycle: Final product.
Version: 1.0.0
Change Log: Published service.
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Copyright Text: Soil Survey Staff - West Virginia University, Gridded GlobalSoilMap Property maps (GSM, Version 0.5) for conterminous United States, USDA-NRCS.

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