{ "currentVersion": 10.81, "cimVersion": "2.6.0", "serviceDescription": "This service displays the Gravel theme from the GSM v0.5 based on Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO) filled in with STATSGO2 for missing SSURGO data. The Gravel theme is displayed by three property values; high, low, and representative. Each value displays the depth range in cm.", "mapName": "Layers17", "description": "The coarse fragments (gravel) table is designed to facilitate thematic mapping. The table is national in extent and can be \nused in conjunction with the GSM Version 0.5 grid to map coarse fragments (gravel). The \"h\", \"l\", and \"r\" correspond to \n\"high\", \"low\" and \"representative\" property values. \nThe \"l\" represents the minimum low value of all the components within each map unit and is used as an approximate lower \nconfidence limit estimate for the map unit at each depth. For the lower estimate above the representative value \"r\" (due to\nincomplete population of high and low values in SSURGO, and anomalies in the spline), the lower\nestimate was set to null.\nThe \"h\" represents the maximum value of all the components within each map unit and is used as an approximate upper \nconfidence limit estimate for the map unit at each depth. For the upper estimate above the representative value \"r\" (due to\nincomplete population of high and low values in SSURGO, and anomalies in the spline), the upper\nestimate was set to null. \n \nThe table can be attached to the raster map layer data using the common \"mukeyint\" for spatial mapping. This table represents coarse fragments (gravel) soil property.\n
Field<\/th>Description<\/th><\/tr>\n
mukeyint: <\/td>Map unit identification key<\/td><\/tr>
source: <\/td>SSURGO or STATSGO2<\/td><\/tr>
count30m: <\/td>Number of pixels in the map unit<\/td><\/tr>
km2: <\/td>Area in km2 of map unit extent<\/td><\/tr>
muname: <\/td>Descriptive map unit name<\/td><\/tr>
mu_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3_000_005: <\/td>gravel as volume ratio for 0-5 cm soil thickness<\/td><\/tr>
mu_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3_005_015: <\/td>gravel as volume ratio for 5-15 cm soil thickness<\/td><\/tr>
mu_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3_015_030: <\/td>gravel as volume ratio for 15-30 cm soil thickness<\/td><\/tr>
mu_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3_030_060: <\/td>gravel as volume ratio for 30-60 cm soil thickness<\/td><\/tr>
mu_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3_060_100: <\/td>gravel as volume ratio for 60-100 cm soil thickness<\/td><\/tr>
mu_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3_100_200: <\/td>gravel as volume ratio for 100-200 cm soil thickness<\/td><\/tr>
mu_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3_000_999: <\/td>gravel as volume ratio for total soil thickness prior to spline<\/td><\/tr>
mu_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3_rootzone: <\/td>gravel as volume ratio for total soil thickness available to root zone<\/td><\/tr>
mu_sum_comppct_r_fix_gravel_r_vol_ratio_m3_m3: <\/td>Percent (by area) of map unit used for weighted average calculation<\/td><\/tr>
gravel units: <\/td>m3 per m3 as volume ratio<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n

Horizon values for each component (soil type) were selected only where the data were not missing and \nthe component kind was not \u2018Miscellaneous area\u2019. Miscellaneous areas were excluded since they are dominantly occupied by\nnon-soil materials. Major miscellanous areas include badlands, beaches, chutes, cinder lands, dams, dumps, dune lands, glaciers, gullied land,\nlava flows, mined lands, oil-waste land, pits, playas, riverwash, rock outcrop, rubble land, slickens, urban land and water. \nDetailed descriptions of each category can be found in the National Soil Survey Handbook, Part 627 - Legend Development and Data Collection, \nSubpart B - 627.10 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. National soil survey handbook, title 430-VI \n[http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/ref/?cid=nrcs142p2_054242 (accessed 14 February 2018)].\nThe values for each soil type profile were fit with an equal-area continuous smoothing spline. \n(Bishop et al., 1999; Odgers et al., 2012) with a smoothing parameter, lambda, set at 0.1 for all properties.\nThe 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,\nand 100-200 cm (GlobalSoilMap, 2012)).\nFor instances where splined values exceeded the lower and upper bounds the property estimate was \u201ccapped\u201d at the nearest sensible bound.\nThe representative standard depth estimates for each profile (i.e. component or soil type), were weighted within each map unit \n(i.e. group of components mapped together), using the component percentage by area of the map unit as the weights. Miscellaneous areas (non-soil\nmaterials) did not contribute to the map unit weighted average so the weighted mean represents only the\nsoils in each map unit. The remaining soil components were scaled to represent 100% of the map unit\nand weighted accordingly in the calculation of the map unit average. Values for map units dominated by non-soil material, or with more than 50% \nas \u2018Miscellaneous area\u2019 were set to null.<\/p>\n

Coarse fragments (m3m-3) was calculated from:\n