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Alberta Soil Information Viewer: Creating Accurate Field Sketches

 
 
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 Ralph Romanchuk now needs to produce field sketches as part of the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) process.
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  1. Select the "Go to Online Soil Viewer" link.
  2. If you previously bookmarked "EFP Example", select "Find Location" - "Spatial Bookmark" - "EFP Example".
      • Otherwise, press the "Locate Township" button
        • Select Township 055, Range 23, West of the 4th merdian. Press the "Locate" button.
        • Select the "Zoom In" tool. Drag a box around sections 11, 12, 13, and 14.
        • Select the "Pan" tool. Drag the north half of section 12 to the center of the mapping window.
  3. Set the scale of the mapping window to 1:10,000. The scale can be found in the bottom left portion of the screen.
      • If a message appears stating that the "area that you have selected is beyond the limits defined for this map," you may need to increase your screen resolution.
  4. Maximize the Soil Information Viewer Window
  5. Select the "grid markup" tool.
  6. In the "Grid Markup Tool" sidebar, set the "Horizontal Grid Cells" and "Vertical Grid Cells" to 10.
  7. Press OK.
  8. Either use the grid overlay as a refence for sketching the "field" or "field groupings" required by the EFP manual, or print the map"
    • Hit the "Print" button .
    • Leave the Template/Quality and Scale fields at their default settings. In the Map Title field, type "Field Sketch".
    • The map will be created as a PDF. Click on the "Open Map" link.
    • You can either save or print the resulting map.
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The Alberta Soil Information Viewer is a collaboration between the Research Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Agriculture Stewardship Division of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development.
  
 
 
 

Other Documents in the Series

  
  Alberta Soil Information Viewer: Case Studies
 Alberta Soil Information Viewer: Accessing Soil Information
Alberta Soil Information Viewer: Creating Accurate Field Sketches - Current Document
Alberta Soil Information Viewer: Manure Management
  
 
 
 
For more information about the content of this document, contact David Spiess.
This information published to the web on September 26, 2006.
Last Reviewed/Revised on September 16, 2008.