SoLIM Training

This project has both a development component aimed at creating training materials (e.g., documentation, visualization tools, training datasets) and a testing (including revising) component that will provide evaluation of those materials. Project deliverables include:

Development of a training curriculum consisting of written materials documenting the SoLIM approach. This amounts to a training manual providing the theoretical underpinning the SoLIM approach, details of how SoLIM has been implemented, and instructions on how to operate SoLIM.
Assembly of real-world datasets for GIS specialists to using during their training course. These datasets consist of GIS database for a given area and the knowledge base regarding on soil-landscape model (soil-environmental relationships) for the area.
Hosting two NRCS GIS specialists for a two-week dry run of the training program.
Evaluation of the dry run results and revision of the training program accordingly.
Training each of the two NRCS GIS specialists to work with a local soil scientist from his/her local region and to extract the knowledge on soil-landscape relationships over a watershed.
Training each of the two GIS specialists to compile GIS database for the local watershed for applying the SoLIM approach.
Training each GIS specialist to conduct soil inference for the local watershed using the data in the GIS database and the extracted knowledge.
Training each GIS specialist to refine and validate the inference results.
Assisting the two GIS specialists in their efforts to apply the SoLIM approach in a production mode of soil survey.