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Future Developments in NASIS

NASIS has been developed as a series of yearly releases, each containing more features than the previous one. This process has been guided by a master plan, which we call the Total Requirements Statement, written in 1993. Most of the features in this plan are included in the current NASIS release, but there are some that were not developed due to low priority or technical problems. There are also features that were suggested but not well defined in the original plan, and others that have come up over time. This list is just a summary of NASIS capabilities that are being considered for future releases. They are in no particular order.

  • Data Accumulation
  • Manuscript Generation
  • Compute Additional Data Elements (T, k, sieves, AASHTO, Unified, etc.)
  • Manage Official Series Descriptions in NASIS
  • Enhanced Report Writer
  • Enhanced Query Capability
  • Data Aggregation (create mapunit and component data from point data)
  • Data Comparision (compare data mapunits, components, pedons, etc.)
  • National Standard
  • GIS Functionality (lots of items here)
  • Data Warehouse
  • Query Soils by Interpretive Results
  • NATSGO