SCS Soils cover for Mount Desert Island and its municipalities contains attribute coding compiled from the Soil Conservation Service Soils Survey for Hancock County, Maine. The coding is based on soil potential for various land uses. The dataset was last updated on January 1, 1991.
Use Cases
- Assess agricultural suitability based on soil potential attributes
- Plan land development projects using soil-based land-use coding
- Model environmental impacts by integrating soil potential data
- Conduct regional soil resource inventories for Mount Desert Island
Strengths
- Attribute coding is compiled from an authoritative SCS Soils Survey
- Focuses on a specific geographic region: Mount Desert Island and Hancock County, Maine
Limitations
- Last updated 1991-01-01 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Provenance
- Source
- SCIOPS
- Collection Method
- Compiled from the Soil Conservation Service Soils Survey for Hancock County, Maine.
- Freshness
- 1991-01-01 23:59:59.999000
- Geography
- Mount Desert Island and Hancock County, Maine