Repository details

Web Soil Survey

Name of repository
Web Soil Survey
Additional name(s)
  • NRCS Web Soil Survey
  • WSS
  • Soil Survey Geographic Database
  • State Soil Geographic2
  • STATSGO2
  • SSURGO
Repository URL
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/soils/survey/
Subject(s)
Description
Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties and anticipates having 100 percent in the near future. The site is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information.
Contact
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/soils/home/
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • data provider
Institution name
National Cooperative Soil Survey
Additional name(s)
  • NCSS
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
USA.gov
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Additional name(s)
  • USDA, NRCS
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (1)

Policy Name
Technical References Soil Survey

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
Public Domain
DataLicense
Copyrights

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Data citation guideline
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/home/?cid=nrcs142p2_053368
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
unknown

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard name
FGDC/CSDGM - Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata standard scheme
DCC

Alerting services (1)

Type of alerting service
RSS

Remarks

Remarks
Data access: WSS : http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/WebSoilSurvey.aspx see also: http://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov/
Entry date
2016-02-12
Last update
2021-09-08
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re3data.org: Web Soil Survey; editing status 2021-09-08; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3963S last accessed: 2024-04-18