Why AI? With AI becoming increasingly integrated into our lives, I've embraced it as a tool to enhance my work, studies, and for fun! Primarily, I use these tools to confirm my plant ID, but sometimes I also rely on tools for bird calls, herping, and identifying a particularly perplexing insect. Generally, I consider myself an intermediate-to-expert at flora and fauna in the southeast region, but the further I get from North Carolina, the less accurate I become. I'll be the first to admit uncertainty, and in those cases I often have an app or a resource I rely upon to point me in the right direction. It's much easier to pull out my phone and try to identify something - rather than keying out plant species like I have had to do on many occasions for work that relied upon the correct wetland plant ID. Often times you get the correct answer, or you get close enough to use your results as a starting point for further research. I've experimented with various tools, but I alw...
My personal review: A tool for Professionals and Land Owners/Land Managers Web Soil Survey is an incredibly helpful and powerful tool for customized soil investigations. Whether you're a landowner planning a garden or building a shed, or a professional environmental scientist needing detailed soils data for reports, this tool offers a wealth of features tailored to your selected location. Starting is straightforward: You select your "Area of Interest" by either uploading a shapefile or navigating to your area and draw a bounding box for investigation. For this exercise, I chose to investigate my own property. I used my property as my "Area of Interest" Once you've chosen your location you can start exploring all the features and really "digging" into the soils information. The tool allows you to explore the physical properties of soil in great detail, providing valuable information about flooding frequency, landforms, drainage classes, depth to w...
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