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Choose on the blue globe() to download the relevant data in KMZ format (Google Earth uses KML file format with WGS84 coordinate system. The KMZ is a compression format of KML). Save this file to your local disk and open using Google Earth.
Soil - Soil Survey Geographic data(SSURGO-Publication_Date: 2008): Soil data has been downloaded from Geospatial Data Gate Way (USDA) and processed to accommodate its properties. Each soil map unit, typically a set of polygons, may contain multiple soil components that have different use and management. The Soil Data Viewer is used to compute a single value for a map unit. In this process, the standard methods are applied to select the soil component such as select "major" map unit among the set of units with default aggregation method of that property and selected "Add Layer" for Horizon aggregation. The soil data has number of main soil properties and can be viewed in Google Earth.
Land Use Land Cover - LULC (from GeoStor - 2006): The LULC data has been obtained from GeoStor-2006. It has standard color for land use type with details. By clicking on the county layer name in Google Earth, you can view land type details.
Weather Forecast (from National Weather Service): Select a forecast day and weather parameter and the data will be downloaded from the National Weather Service.
Municipal Boundary (from U.S.Census Bureau): This map of city boundaries (place data) was downloaded from U.S.Census Bureau-2009 TIGER with population data from U.S.Census Bureau-FactFinder.
Wildlife Management (from Arkansas Site Selection Center): The wildlife data has the area of particular place with details and link to the particular website. This wildlife management data was downloaded from Arkansas Site Selection Center in November, 2009.
Crop Data (from USDA) : This crop data is available by crop category and year range. It covers from 1972 to 2009 time period. The data has been downloaded from USDA-NASS and processed to required format.
2007 Census of Agriculture (from USDA) :The 2007 Agriculture census data is available in different categories by county. This data was downloaded from USDA-NASS. Certain sensitive data are suppressed and mark as (D).
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