Polaris Soils V2
Post Polaris V2
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The POLARIS Soils API offers a means to clip the POLARIS dataset to a user-provided area of interest. POLARIS provides a quantitative prediction of soil attributes (including pH, clay %, organic matter %) at different depths across the contiguous United States. It is build using machine learning algorithms that remap the Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database.

Polaris Soils in Ag-Analytics DataLayers.
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Request Parameter Details
Parameter | Data Type | Required? | Default | Options | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
aoi | GeoJSONString, .shp file, GeoTIFF |
Yes | -- | -- | Area of interest, in the case of GeoJSON, can be multipolygon or rings.) |
Soil_Parameter | String | Yes | -- | See soil parameter details table |
Soil property to generate map of. |
Depth_Range | String | Yes | -- | "0-5" "5-15" "15-30" "30-60" "60-100" "100-200" |
Depth range in centimeters of the soil column. |
Statistic | String | Yes | -- | mean, min, max, var |
Statistics provided per layer and variable. Includes arithmetic mean, minimum, maximum, and variance. |
Legend_Ranges | String | No | 3 | Any number greater than 0 | PNG will have a number of colors corresponding to the number of legend ranges passed. Each color bin is spaced evenly among the points. |
Soil_Parameter Details
The following variables can be used for the "Soil_Parameter"
Variable | Units | Description | Variable | Units | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
silt | % | Silt percentage | ksat | cm/hr | Saturated hydraulic conductivity |
sand | % | Sand percentage | resdt | cm | Depth to restriction layer |
clay | % | Clay Percentage | ph | N/A | Soil pH in H2O |
bd | g/cm3 | Bulk Density | om | % | Organic matter percentage |
awc | m3/m3 | Available water content | caco3 | % | Calcium carbonate percentage |
theta_s | m3/m3 | Saturated soil water content | cec | meq/100g | Cation exchange capacity in soil |
theta_r | m3/m3 | Residual soil water content | lambda | N/A | Pore size distribution index (brooks-corey) |
theta_33 | m3/m3 | Soil water content at field capacity |
hb | cm | Bubbling pressure (brooks-corey) |
theta_1500 | m3/m3 | Soil water content at the wilting point |
n | N/A | Measure of the pore size distribution (van genuchten) |
alpha | cm-1 | Scale parameter inversely proportional to mean pore diameter (van genuchten) |
Response Parameters
Parameter | Data Type | Description |
---|---|---|
CellSize | Int[ ] | The output raster cell size (resolution) |
CoordinateSystem | String | The CoordinateSystem defines the projection for the data. A projection specifies how latitude-longitude coordinates are transformed into 2-dimension x-y coordinates. |
Extent | String | The minimum and maximum X and Y coordinates of a bounding box. |
Legend | Dictionary | Legend gives the following details for each range of values: 1. color: Hex color used for the soil parameter value 2. Area: Area of certain soil parameter value 3. Count: Number of pixels from the result raster of certain soil parameter value 4. CountAllPixels: Total number of pixels in the result raster 5. Max: maximum soil parameter value 6. Mean: average soil parameter value 7. Min: minimum soil parameter value 8. Area: Area of the soil parameter in acres |
Max | Double | Maximum soil parameter value |
Mean | Double | Average soil parameter value |
Min | Double | Minimum soil parameter value |
Percentile5 | Double | 5th percentile soil parameter value |
Percentile95 | Double | 95th percentile soil parameter value |
Product | String | The soil parameter supplied in the request (pH) |
Std | Double | Standard deviation for the given soil parameter |
pngb64 | String | Base64 png string |
FileName | String | The tif file that can be downloaded |
Call API
Request
Request URL
Request headers
-
(optional)string
-
string
Request body
aoi=%7B%22type%22%3A%22Feature%22%2C%22geometry%22%3A%7B%22type%22%3A%22Polygon%22%2C%22coordinates%22%3A%5B%5B%5B-121.2475204%2C+45.4668127%5D%2C%5B-121.2484646%2C+45.4418262%5D%2C%5B-121.2119007%2C+45.4417660%5D%2C%5B-121.2115574%2C+45.4665117%5D%2C%5B-121.2475204%2C+45.4668127%5D%5D%5D%7D%7D&Soil_Parameter=ph&Depth_Range=15-30&Statistic=mean&Legend_Ranges=10
Responses
200 OK
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X POST "https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/polaris-v2/"
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
var uri = "https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/polaris-v2/?" + queryString;
HttpResponseMessage response;
// Request body
byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");
using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
{
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
}
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/polaris-v2/");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/polaris-v2/?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
},
type: "POST",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/polaris-v2/";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/polaris-v2/');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('ag-analytics.azure-api.net')
conn.request("POST", "/polaris-v2/?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('ag-analytics.azure-api.net')
conn.request("POST", "/polaris-v2/?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/polaris-v2/')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body