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West Texas Telecommunications Project - Field Soil Scientist Toolbox

3DMapper Information and Links

A very good site for 3D_Mapper information Using 3dMapper for Idaho Soil Survey

Just search for 3dmapper to find the 3D_mapper home page

The SoLIM Project using 3dMapper also references the Idaho 3dMapper tutorial The SoLIM Project

Tentative Outline for 3dMapper NetMeeting Training

Session 1 - Background and data acquisition and preparation 1.5 hours.
I Introduction
1. Background software information
2. Data acquisition
3. Tiling methods and creation of indexes
4. Data Preparation
- Base file creation
  Clipping imagery
  Converting to ascii format
  Import to 3dM file
- Soil Layers
  Import of Existing Soil information
  Import of Initial Soil neatline
Session 2 Basic Software usage and digitizing 1.5 -2 hours.

This session will be a free form overview of using the software to view landscapes in 3d different terrain variables will be used to interpret the landscape. The digitizing functionality for both line and polygon geometry will be demonstrated.
Session 3 Export of data created in 3dMapper into ArcGIS 1.5 hours.