NASIS Thunderbook 

The following documents require Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, or Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation.

Notes on Populating Data Elements (42KB)
Use these notes as further guidelines for populating and editing soil properties and qualities in NASIS.

NASIS Pouplation Checklist (48 KB)
To be used in conjunction with editing NASIS data to ensure that minimum requirements for population, calculation and validation are completed. Format is set for editing individual map units.

NASIS Checklist for Project Soil Survey (22 KB)
To be used in conjunction with editing NASIS data to ensure that minimum requirements for population, calculation and validation are completed. User will need to complete the format based on their needs. Format is set for editing any any number of map units at a given time.

OSD DMU tutorial (22 KB)
PowerPoint presentation to guide users through steps using standard OSD Data Map Units as a template for their own components.

Sjeves  (42 KB)
Chart (11x17) of percentage of material commonly passing # 40 and #200 sieves.

MO14 recommends using the following user's guides from Virginia:

Virginia User's Guide for NASIS Taxonomic Unit Descriptions
Virginia MUG User's Guide
Virginia User's Guide Site and Pedon Data

http://www.va.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/Soils/nasis.html

NASIS Homepage (Product Information)

NASIS 5.0 Tutorials
Provides guidance in all areas of NASIS population, editing, correlation, calculation, and validation.

NASIS 5.1 Pedon Data Entry Guide (Edits & Exhibits by MO14 Staff) (784 KB)