KSSL
KSSL
The USDA-NRCS NCSS Kellogg Soil Survey Laboratory (KSSL) soil libraries from the United States and other territories
80,000+ samples
snapshot Jul 2022
Other (Custom)
Database access
Data originally provided by:
- Contact: Scarlett Murphy
- Email: Scarlett.Murphy@usda.gov
- Original source: https://ncsslabdatamart.sc.egov.usda.gov/
No file listing available for this dataset.
Map
Soil site information
- Coordinates precision: precise, county, country
- Sampling depth: various
- Geography: soil taxonomy, soil horizon
Soil laboratory information
- Properties available (original): 1000+
- Properties standardized (OSSL): 51 — summarized in ?@tbl-soillab-kssl below
- Categories: physical, chemical, biological, hydrological, carbon & nutrients, metal elements
- Original source: see Database access
Detailed summary statistics not available for this dataset.
MIR
- Acquisition mode: Not available
- Intensity: absorbance
- Original range: 400-4000
- Standardized range: 600-4000
- Instrument: Vertex 70 FT-IR
- Manufacturer: Bruker Optics
- Scan accessory: Not available
- Sample preparation: Air-dried, finely ground < 80mesh
- Additional info: MCT (mercury cadmium telluride) detector
MIR plot
VNIR
- Acquisition mode: Not available
- Intensity: reflectance
- Original range: 350-2500
- Instrument: ASD Labspec 2500
- Manufacturer: Analytical Spectral Devices Inc., PANalytical NIR Excellence Center
- Instrument co-scans: Not available
- Scan repeats: Not available
- Scan accessory: Not available
- Original resolution: Not available
- Sample preparation: Air-dried, Sieved < 2 mm
- Additional info: A standard Spectralon panel was used to obtain the white reference at 15-min intervals.
VNIR plot
