soils: Soil Units

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

Representation of mapped surficial soil units created by the Idaho Office of the National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). Soils have been assigned a percolation rate based on the average, saturated hydraulic conductivity of the soils as classified using the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS).

Usage

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Format

An object of SpatialPolygonsDataFrame class containing 718 Polygons and a data.frame with the following variables:

GroupSymbol

soil class identifier

SoilLayer

identifier used to differentiate the soil data source used to create the soils map. Data sources are either ‘USCS’ or ‘STATSGO’, the NRCS State Soil Geographic Data Base.

SoilClass

description of the soil class.

MinRate

lower percolation rate limit for the soil class, in meters per month.

MaxRate

upper percolation rate limit for the soil class, in meters per month.

PercolationRate

percolation rate in meters per month.

Geographic coordinates are in units of meters, in conformance with the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83), and placed in the Idaho Transverse Mercator projection (IDTM).

Source

Idaho Department of Water Resources, accessed on April 22, 2015

Examples

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sp::spplot(soils, "PercolationRate")
str(soils@data)

USGS-R/wrv documentation built on June 30, 2020, 11:07 p.m.