SSURGO Soil V2

POST SSURGO

Please note, you need to purchase a subscription key to call the API. Please use the trial version to try now for a limited amount of uses before purchase.

This API is utilized to drive the Ag-Analytics SSURGO soil panel below, for illustration. Area calculations from the API are provided in square meters and can be easily converted to acres on the front-end. The API Response contains shapes/features in ESRI JSON format, as well as the calculated metric (e.g., National Commodity Crop Productivity Index) and areas of each shape, the soil type name, the area for the sums of each soil type across all features for display in the table, metadata related to projection and other information. This API can be easily called and mapped using any standard front-end JavaScript mapping library (e.g., Leaflet).

Please note, this SSURGO Soil v2 API features changes in the response. Changes will be reflected in the Documentation and Jupyter Notebook.

SSURGO Soils in Ag-Analytics DataLayers.

Request Parameters

Parameter	Data Type	Required?	Default	Options	Description
AOI	String	Yes (otherwise pass file)	--	Geojson or esriGeometryType	If no spatial specification was provided, the result raster will use the Ag-Analytics default spatial reference: WGS 84, resolution at 0.0001 degree
File	GeoTIFF or ShapeFile in a zip	Yes (otherwise pass AOI)	-	-	A GeoTiff (.TIFF,.Tif, .etc) or a Shapefile in Zip (must include shp, shx, dbf, but others files such as .prj, .xml, .cpg are recommended for better processing)
Projection	String	No	"EPSG:4326"	ex:"EPSG:4326"	Output projection of result GeoTIFF.
Resolution	String	No	"nccpi2all"	Full NRCS List	The soil metric to return, see the NRCS variables PDF for full list with descriptions

Request Handling - Default Projections and Resolutions

AOI Type	Projection Specified?	Resolution Specified?	Ouput Projection	Output Resolution
Any	Yes	Yes	Request projection	Request resolution
GeoTIFF	Yes	No	Request projection	GeoTIFF resolution
GeoTIFF	No	Yes	GeoTIFF projection	Request resolution
GeoTIFF	No	No	GeoTIFF projection	GeoTIFF resolution
Shapefile	Yes	No	Request projection	Default resolution
Shapefile	No	Yes	Shapefile projection	Request resolution
Shapefile	No	No	Shapefile projection	Default resolution
GeoJSON	Yes	No	Request projection	Default resolution
GeoJSON	No	Yes	GeoJSON projection	Request resolution
GeoJSON	No	No	GeoJSON projection	Default resolution

Raster Response Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
CellSize	List	Cell size/ Resolution of result raster
CoordinateSystem	String	Coordinate System of result raster
Extent	String	Corner coordinates of result raster
Soil_Parameter	String	Soil metric/parameter
Weighted_Average	Float	Weighted average soil matrix value
pngb64	String	Base 64 png string.
Legend	List	Legend gives the following details for each range of values: 1. color: Hex color used for the crop type 2. Area: area of the Soil Type (see Soil_Type) covered in percentage 3. Count: Number of pixels from the result raster of a certain Soil_Type 4. CountAllPixels: Total number of pixels in the result raster 5. Soil_Type: Soil type in String 6. Value: Soil type in index, mukey value 7. Soil_Value: Value of requested soil matrix on current soil type

GeoJSON Response Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
GeoJSON	GeoJSON	Return the results as a FeatureCollection. The properties are also attached to each GeoJSON object.
Soil_Parameter	String	Request soil matrix/parameter
Weighted_Average	Float	Weighted average soil matrix/parameter by area
Properties.SoilType	String	Soil type name in string
Properties.area	Float	Area in acreage of current soil type
Properties.mukey	Integer	Soil type key as integer
Properties.Request SoilParameter	Float	RequestSoilParameter will be based on the parameter in request. This parameter gives back the soil matrix/parameter value of current soil type. ex: Properties.nccpi2all

Call API

Request

Request URL

https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/ssurgo-v2/

Request headers

Content-Type (optional)

string
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

string

Request body

SSURGO Request Example.

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

AOI=%7B%22geometryType%22%3A+%22esriGeometryPolygon%22%2C+%22features%22%3A+%5B%7B%22geometry%22%3A+%7B%22rings%22%3A+%5B%5B%5B-85.179%2C+42.74%5D%2C+%5B-85.17858886748223%2C+42.74188232450973%5D%2C+%5B-85.17858886748223%2C+42.742675781062474%5D%2C+%5B-85.1782836915391%2C+42.742675781062474%5D%2C+%5B-85.1782226563505%2C+42.74230956993074%5D%2C+%5B-85.17529296909521%2C+42.74230956993074%5D%2C+%5B-85.17529296909521%2C+42.74353027370324%5D%2C+%5B-85.17529296909521%2C+42.74371337926908%5D%2C+%5B-85.17492675796348%2C+42.74389648393566%5D%2C+%5B-85.17437744126585%2C+42.744079589501496%5D%2C+%5B-85.17340087914721%2C+42.744079589501496%5D%2C+%5B-85.17327880876996%2C+42.74749755826576%5D%2C+%5B-85.17401123013411%2C+42.74749755826576%5D%2C+%5B-85.17401123013411%2C+42.74847412128372%5D%2C+%5B-85.17529296909521%2C+42.74847412128372%5D%2C+%5B-85.17590332008211%2C+42.74829101571788%5D%2C+%5B-85.17749023408697%2C+42.74792480458609%5D%2C+%5B-85.17761230446422%2C+42.7470703128447%5D%2C+%5B-85.1782836915391%2C+42.746704101712965%5D%2C+%5B-85.18072509728535%2C+42.746704101712965%5D%2C+%5B-85.179%2C+42.74%5D%5D%5D%2C+%22spatialReference%22%3A+%7B%22wkid%22%3A+4326%7D%7D%7D%5D%7D&Soil_Parameter=nccpi2all&Projection=EPSG%3A4326&Resolution=1e-05&Product=GeoJSON

Responses

200 OK

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X POST "https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/ssurgo-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/ssurgo-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/ssurgo-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/ssurgo-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/ssurgo-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/ssurgo-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", "/ssurgo-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", "/ssurgo-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/ssurgo-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