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Cannon Valley Big Woods Project: The Big Woods Project is a multifaceted investigation of unique soils in Eastern Rice County, Minnesota and will provide the needed tools for understanding and protecting the Big Woods Ecosystem from gullying, sedimentation, and stream bank erosion. Also check out the ArcExplorer training with Big Woods data. |
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GIS/RS Innovative Soil Mapping Update Project: Research is currently underway to incorporate digital orthophoto data, IKONOS Imagery, and digital terrain analysis to produce the soil survey of the future. |
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GIS Soil: This project was designed to demonstrate the capibility to serve Soil Survey Information on the WWW as an integrated GIS and database application. |
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Rosemount Terrace Terrain Modeling: At the Rosemount Experiment Station, a field survey was conducted with a DGPS to gather X,Y, and Z values to generate a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the research terrace. |
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MN Wetlands: We are designing a web page for the MN Board of Soil and Water Resources on wetlands in Minnesota. This is a sample of a GIS application for distributing National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) data. |
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Soil Survey Orthorectification and Digitization in Minnesota: County Soil Surveys are of varying quality in Minnesota. The spatial accuracy of the line work is a factor of three characteristics: topographic relief, scale, and photographic base. The study at the Soil Landscape Analysis Lab in the Department of Soil, Water and Climate focussed on the correction of spatial errors associated with County Soil Surveys in Minnesota. |
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Wet Soil Monitoring Project: The main goals of the project are to establish and maintain long-term soil monitoring data that can be accessed in the future to answer questions about soil saturation, oxidation/reduction status, and development of observable soil properties characteristic of wetland soils. |
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The Chequamegon Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (CHEAS) aims to improve our understanding of the carbon balance of northern forests, particularly the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin. Projects range from radar and tall-tower studies of lower atmospheric structure to leaf and chamber measurements of carbon fluxes. |
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The Agro-Ecological Research Farm is part of the University of Minnesota Southern Research and Outreach Center in Waseca, MN. A variety of agricultural and environmental research is being conducted at the AERF. This site describes using a GIS to analyze weed populations on agricultural landscapes through an interactive mapping interface. |
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Minnesota River Basin Agricultural Resources and Research: A comprehensive overview of the water quality concerns for the Minnesota River Basin, along with detailed information and maps concerning variability across the basin in climate, crop productivity, landscape slope steepness, soil drainage, and soil erosion potential. |
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Red River of the North in Minnesota: A comprehensive overview of the water quality concerns for the Red River of the North Basin, along with detailed information and maps concerning variability across the basin in climate, crop productivity, landscape slope steepness, soil drainage, and soil erosion potential. |
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Southeastern Minnesota's Mississippi River Drainage Area: A comprehensive overview of the water quality concerns for the Red River of the North Basin, along with detailed information and maps concerning variability across the basin in climate, crop productivity, landscape slope steepness, soil drainage, and soil erosion potential. |
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