# Presentation: 110145

## Soil Resource Inventory Tool Box (SRITB)

- MO-13 Meeting
- April 17, 2008

## What is SRITB?

- Soil Resource Inventory Toolbox
- Initiative by Soil Survey Division to provide automated tools for field soil scientists

## SRITB components:

- Pedon PC
- Analysis PC
- Lab Database Entry Program
- Editing Toolbar (ArcMap extension)
- Soil scientist’s “My Toolbar” (desktop)

## Where to get help/training

## Soils Job Aids

## Pedon PC - form based data entry application for tablets

## Pedon PC has two layouts:

## Pedon PC layout for PC (landscape)

## Pedon PC Tablet layout (portrait)

## Analysis PC

- Forms built in Microsoft Access
- Links between Access and ArcMap

## Analysis PC main menu

## Analysis PC:

- Analysis form: uses Access built queries to display selected sets

## Allows the user to send data to ArcMap

## Laboratory Data Entry Program

- Numerous universities, states, and other entities collect and store soil data
- Lab Database Entry Program is an attempt to centralize this external data into our system

## Lab Database Entry main menu

## Editing Toolbar (SRITB 1.1.18)

- Adds a suite of toolbars to ArcMap (loads as an extension)
- Programmed to simplify GIS digitizing procedures and data capture.
- Developed to increase the efficiency of field digitizing and data collection.
- Designed to maximize screen real estate
- Provide field scientists with enough GIS capability to make informed decisions _*in the field*_.
- Digitizing standards are pre-set as the defaults so user does not have to know or understand all the details of these standards

## Six toolbars in one:

## Edit Manager 

- Editor icons

**Notes:**
Remember!  Thought these editor functions (icons) are on the Edit Manager Toolbar, they can also be placed on the Editor Toolbar. 
 Tools > Customize > select the Commands tab and under Categories select Editor.  Drag and drop any of the desired tools to the toolbar.

## Edit Manager

- Tolerance Settings icons

**Notes:**
For Tablet PC user’s the Stream Tolerance settings are extremely important!  Since the preferred method of digitizing on a Tablet PC is in the Stream mode, the Stream Tolerances must be set or you will drop too many vertices which explode the size of the database.  This causes decreased performance and overly large databasese.

## Edit Toolbar

**Editing Tools**

**Topology**
**Editing Tools**

**Editing Tools**

**Notes:**
These tools replace the Tasks functions found on the ESRI toolbar.

## Custom Edit ToolsSaving Keystrokes (Ex: Cutting Polygons)

- Out-of-the-Box ArcMap
- Start Editing
- Set task to Cut Polygon Features
- Activate Select Features Tool
- Select features
- Activate Sketch Tool
- Make cut
- Explode multi-part features
- Label features

- SRITB Cut Polygon Tool
- Activate Cut Polygon Mode
- Select features
- Make cut
- Label features

## Custom Edit ToolsImproving Quality

- Proper tools to perform task are automatically selected
- Using the wrong tools creates errors
- Quality control is built-in

## Sketch Toolbar

**Draw using **
**a Thin pen**

## Topology Toolbar

**Construct**
**Features**

- ! Topology is critical for data quality and integrity !

## QC Toolbar in Version 1.1.18

**Finds**
**Minimum**
**Sized**
**Polygons**

**Find**
**And Fix**
**Inspector**

## GPS Toolbar

**Pedon PC** **Applications**

**Notes:**
By selecting the Pedon PC Application tools the Pedon PC program automatically starts up and the location data is populated in the program.  Reduces typo’s, insures accurate location of Pedon descriptions.  

## Autopopulation of Location

## Setup Tools

- Proper setup is critical to data quality
- Setup Toolboxes simplify and bullet-proof setup and offer standardization
- Two Options - initial or update survey
- Options within options for different types of setup
- Packaged separately from SRITB

## Slide 30

## Slide 31

## My Toolbar (in development):

- Provides links to web and client applications that are relevant to soil science on a desktop toolbar