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SMS Basic and Advanced Manual
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The sample points, grids, or regions will now be displayed on the map in the Soil Sampling editor
and selectable and editable.
6. If you select the Select Sampling Region tool follow these steps, if not skip to step 7:
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Move your cursor over the Soil Sampling editor map and draw a polygon region that will be
gridded to generate sample points.
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Click the right mouse button when you are finished drawing the polygon region to be gridded.
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The Sampling Parameters dialog will now appear. Make all the required settings, see the
description of these settings above in step 6, and then click the NEXT> button.
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A preview of the sampling grid and points that will be created will now appear. The grid and its
points can be shift left/right and up/down or rotated 360 degrees about the grid center. Click the
Reset Button to reset the grid location to the position it was when the preview was first created.
Click the Finish button when you are ready to create the sample points and add them to the Soil
Sampling editor map.
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The sample points, grids, or regions will now be displayed on the map in the Soil Sampling editor
and selectable and editable.
7. Now that you have generated or manually added sample points, grids, or regions you have many options for
handling this new data. You can save the data into the management system, export the data as one of the
available formats such as a PFN navigation file for use in the PF3000 or PF3000 Pro, or enter/import soil
sample lab results for each of the sample locations/regions.
8. If you want to edit the soil sampling attribute values such as Soil OM (Organic Matter) then click on the Data
Grid tab. A grid of the default soil sampling attributes will now be displayed with entries for each of the
sample points that has been created. You can either manually enter in the values for each attribute entry or
you can import lab results from an ASCII text file. You can also select the sample locations/regions on the
editor map and then select the Row Editor to selectively edit the values for only the samples that you
selected.
9. To import soil lab results from an ASCII text file follow these steps:
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Go to the File Menu on the Soil Sampling Editor and select Import Sample Results.
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Now select a file in one of the available file formats (Tab, Comma delimited ASCII or dBASE file)
that contains soil sample lab results. Most soil sample lab results do not contain lat/lon position
data, which is not required since you have the sample point positions already in the system. Click
OK once the file is selected.
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You will now be required to set the import parameters for the ASCII text file that will be imported,
such as whether the file contains a header line. Click NEXT> once the parameters have been set.
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In order to link the lab results contained in the import file to the sample points contained in the
system, a reference attribute must be chosen to link an attribute in existing and import dataset.
This will help ensure that point one in the sample point dataset is properly matched with the first
sample values in the import file. Most often the Feature ID in the systems soil sampling dataset
will be selected and matched with an attribute in the import file such as Sample ID or Point Name.
Click NEXT> once a reference attribute has been selected.
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You must now assign attributes to the attributes that you wanted imported into the system and
used to fill in the soil sampling attributes that are contained in your soil sampling dataset. Set the
required reference attribute that you selected in the previous step to an attribute in the import set
that will be used to link entries in the two datasets. Then assign the soil sampling attributes in the
system to the columns in the import dataset that correspond to these attributes and that you want
stored and displayed.
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Once you have setup the attribute columns for import you can save and import template that can
be loaded the next time you import lab results with identical formatting.
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Click the Finish button to link and import the lab results into your soil sampling dataset.
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The imported results data can now be viewed in the Soil Sampling editor by clicking on the Data
Grid tab.
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The soil sampling dataset can now be saved in the Management Tree and mapped, reported,
displayed in summaries, etc.
or See How to import non-spatial data (i.e. Soil Lab Results). for another method to import soil lab results
quickly and easily for multiple fields.
1. Once you have created your soil sampling dataset and made the desired settings, you can click the SAVE
button to save the dataset into the Management Tree. You can also select the Export button to export the
sampling data out in one of the many supported file formats.
How to edit soil sampling data.
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