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Data Map Unit Population Standards Sub-Team

Sub-team of the Soil Survey Database Team.

Team Lead

Jeff Thomas

Team Members

Steve Campbell, Soil Scientist, West National Technology Support Center, Portland, Oregon
Tonie Endres, Senior Regional Soil Scientist, Indianapolis, Indiana
Wayne Gabriel, Senior Regional Soil Scientist, Temple, Texas
David Gehring, Resource Soil Scientist, Owensboro, Kentucky
Kevin Godsey, Soil Scientist, Marble Hill, Missouri
Jane Karinen, Soil Data Quality Specialist, Bozeman, Montana
Jason Nemecek, National Soil Data Applications Scientist, TSS, Ft. Collins, Colorado
Dee Pederson, Assistant State Soil Scientist, Athens, Georgia
Cathy Seybold, Soil Scientist, National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, Nebraska
Kyle Stephens, Soil Data Quality Specialist, Portland, Oregon
Jeff Thomas, Senior Regional Soil Scientist, Morgantown, West Virginia
Mark Van Lear, Soil Data Quality Specialist, Roanoke, Virginia

Team Charges

  • Review existing and historic Data Mapunit (DMU) population standards.
  • Develop an updated set of DMU population standards.

    Minimum Standard
    – For existing DMUs.
    – Intended for older data sets transferred from SSSD or populated in the earlier versions of NASIS.
    – Allows for rapid improvement of SSURGO without causing too much work.

    Full Standard
    – For all new DMUs and those DMUs that undergo significant edits in update projects.
     
  • Create NASIS reports to ensure NASIS DMU data comply with the standards.

Products

Announcement to Regional Directors (60.2 KB)

New NASIS report folder named “Data Integrity.” The folder contains:

Read First About Data Integrity Reports (21.29 KB)
  • This report explains how reports from the Data Integrity site are used to bring NASIS data to a national minimum standard.
How to Use Data Integrity Report Parameters (101.93 KB)
  • This report is the user’s guide.
Minimum Standard (Legend, Mapunit, Data Mapunit) (35.89 KB)
  • This report lists the Minimum Data Population Standard. 
     
  • A suite of companion reports that evaluate data for compliance with the Minimum Standard.