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Pacific Southwest MLRA Soil Survey Region Office #2 - Technical Notes (formerly Guidance Documents)

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Technical Notes - NEW! Guidance Documents
Technical Note No. 6 (v.5 3/3/2008) -- Soil Survey Manuscripts (PDF; 147 KB) (Check Manuscript Development and Publication Information for Pre-Written Material and supporting documents.)

Technical Note No. 9 -- Symbols Legend (37A) - Ad Hoc Symbols (PDF; 59 KB) - 3/10/2008; 37A for Editing in MS Word Format (DOC; 4.5 MB)

Technical Note No. 15 -- Standards for Recording and Referencing Point Data Locations (PDF; 99.3 KB)

Technical Note No. 17 -- Archiving, Quality Assurance and Distribution Processes for Progressive Soil Survey Digitizing - Revised 3/29/2009 (PDF; 1.69 MB)

Transmittal for Technical Note No. 17 -- Archiving and Quality Assurance Process for Progressive Digitizing (PDF; 39 KB)

Technical Note No. 18 (12/7/2005)-- Soil Survey NASIS Calculations (PDF; 58.7 KB)

 List of MO Guidance Documents (PDF; 17 KB)

Introduction to MO Guidance Documents (PDF; 11 KB)

Field Review & Final Correlation Requirements (PDF; 103 KB)

Processing SDs and Maintaining SC Files (PDF; 91 KB)

PEDON Program Use and Requirements (PDF; 70 KB)

Field Review Guidance for Ecological Site Description Correlation (PDF; 90 KB)

Map Compilation Procedures (PDF; 83 KB)

Documentation of NASIS Scripts (PDF; 84 KB)

Joining SSAs for SSURGO Digitizing and Certification (PDF: 95 KB)

Soil Classification and Correlation-Dependent SSURGO Activities (PDF; 65 KB)

Distribution of SS Classification and Correlation Documents (PDF; 73 KB)

Develop General Soils Maps from SSURGO (PDF; 76 KB)

Soil Survey Schedule MO-2 Responsibilities (PDF; 121 KB)

Ecological Site Descriptions Quality Assurance Worksheet (36 KB)

Manuscript Development and Publication Information

The following documents require MS Word.

Certification of Photos & Diagrams (DOC; 48.5 KB) - Updated 11/13/2006
Certification of Tables (DOC; 114 KB) - Updated 3/16/2009
Certification of Text (DOC; 83 KB) - Updated 3/23/2007

The following is a Compressed Zip file (.zip).

Pre-Written Material (ZIP; 2 MB)  - Updated 3/16/2009
 

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