• Advanced Search
• Search Tips

• Aviation
• Biomass
• Cooperative Forestry
• Engineering
• Environmental Compliance
  and Protection (ECAP)
• Facilities
• Fire
• Forest Health Plan
• Forest Management
• Global Positioning System
• Inventory and Monitoring
• Range
• Recreation
• Reforestation and Nurseries
• Residues
• Safety and Health
• Watershed, Soil, and Air
• Wildland Fire Chemical
  Systems

Rey Farve, Project Leader

The web application, "Soil Sample Assessment Tool," is hosted on a server at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center (currently at http://fsweb.sdtdc.wo.fs.fed.us/programs/im/soils_app/soils.php).

Soil sample assessment tool.

Operation & Reports

The Soil Sample Assessment Tool accepts soil sample data from the user (both element concentrations and metadata) and generates a PDF report suitable for inclusion in official documents. (Note: it is important that field-collected data used in the application be compatible with the existing baseline data that is used in the Web application. For more details, see White Paper, appendix A.)

Example of data entered into the Web application

The report that the Web application generates includes the metadata provided by the user (i.e., EcoRegion, site number, soils lab, etc.) along with the values reported for each of the tested elements. It also displays the 75th percentile and maximum values in the dataset for those elements for the selected EcoRegion and displays flags indicating whether the given value equals or exceeds either or both of those values as well as any of the SSL levels that indicate toxicity to specific classes of living organisms.

Example of a report generated by the Web application.

All of the code files, datasets, and supporting documents comprising the application are located in folders on the server for the San Dimas Technology and Development Center.