National Geospatial Development Center

Digital Soil Survey Mapping and Updating Course

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ArcGIS 9.1 Materials - This site is being taken down and materials are being removed since the course has been updated in 2009 and posted to the NCSS course Materials link above.

Procedure for increasing MAXLOCKSPERFILE.doc (46 Kb) - (June 2007)
Setting Virtual Memory and performance.doc (103 KB) - (June 2007)
ArcGIS 9.0 Materials - Last Updated August 18, 2005

Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst Extensions (April 2005)

Introduction (2.1 MB)
Module 1 Merge-Project-Clipping Elevation Data (2.3 MB) - (December 2005)
Module 2 - Slope Gradient Model (2.1 MB) - (December 2005)
Module 3 - Curvature Model (3.7 MB) - (December 2005)

3DMapper 4.X (April 2005)

3D_Mapper Notes (93.7 MB)
Importing Raster Data (2 MB)
Importing Soils Data (1.8 MB)
Export from Three D Mapper (1.2 MB)

Background (April 2005)

Data Acquisition Issues (12.3 MB)
Mapping Spatial and 3D Analysis (23.3 MB)
Mapping Field Data Options (9.8 MB)
Mapping Background (5.2 MB)

References (April 2005)

Cookbook for 9.0 (3.8 MB) - (May 2005)
3DMapper (23.8 MB)
ArcMap GUI Configuration Instructions (20 KB)
37A (10.4 MB)
Importing GPS (1.6 MB)
Steps for Hyperlinking Photos (1.5 MB)
Descriptions for Standard Landform and Miscellaneous Surface Features (7 KB)

Data Files

3D Mapper Data (169 MB) - (April 2005)
ArcMap Configuration files (548 KB) - (April 2005)
ArcGIS Custom Toolboxes (312 KB) - (August 2005)
Geodatabase Acreage Calculation Tool (143 KB) - (April 2005)
Spatial Analyst (25.9 MB) - (December 2005)
3D Mapper Application in Soil Survey