Identification of Dated Surfaces via Soil Series
Overview
A simple association between dated landforms and soil series name [1] was used to extract soil polygons from a composite soil survey database.
Soil Series | Associated Formation | Approximate Age (1000 yrs ago) |
Redding | Laguna | 1600 - 2000 kya |
Corning | Laguna | 1600 - 2000 kya |
Keyes | Laguna | 1600 - 2000 kya |
Whitney | Turlock Lake | 500 - 700 kya |
Montpellier | Turlock Lake | 500 - 700 kya |
Rocklin | Turlock Lake | 500 - 700 kya |
Snelling | Riverbank | 100 - 300 kya |
San Joaquin | Riverbank | 100 - 300 kya |
Exiter | Riverbank | 100 - 300 kya |
Madera | Riverbank | 100 - 300 kya |
Hanford | Modesto | 10 - 40 kya |
Grangeville | Holocene | < 10 kya |
1. Create a soil series - dated landform lookup table:
2. Select map units (mukey) by suitible series concepts, associated with major components. Note that the DISTINCT ON (mukey) ... ORDER BY mukey, comppct_r DESC pattern can be used to select the largest component for each map unit. Pattern matching is used to safely join variants with the soil series names in our look-up table: i.e. 'San Joaquin variant' will match 'San Joaquin'.
3. Create a new classified table called east_side_all. This query involves 6 survey areas, 11423 polygons, and requires about 11 seconds to complete.
4. Index, register geometry, and setup permissions
5. Tabulate acreage for each formation. (approximately 1/3 second to complete)
area_ac | formation |
---|---|
295868 | Riverbank |
253424 | Modesto |
151149 | Turlock Lake |
121085 | Laguna |
96981 | Holocene |
(5 rows)
Dump to local file in SHP format
ogr2ogr east_side_all.shp PG:"dbname=ssurgo_combined user=xxxx password=xxxx host=xxxx" east_side_all
References:
- Smith, D.W. & Verrill, W.L. Witham, C.; Bauder, E.; Belk, D.; Ferren Jr., W. & Ornduff, R. (ed.) Vernal Pool-Soil-Landform Relationships in the Central Valley, California 1998, 15-23
Software
- General Purpose Programming with Scripting Languages
- LaTeX Tips and Tricks
- PostGIS: Spatially enabled Relational Database Sytem
- PROJ: forward and reverse geographic projections
- GDAL and OGR: geodata conversion and re-projection tools
- R: advanced statistical package
- GRASS GIS: raster, vector, and imagery analysis
- Generic Mapping Tools: high quality map production