The Hawai‘i Soil Atlas is an interactive tool that allows users to quickly locate and identify any soil across the Hawaiian islands, and acquire basic information about each soil. This tool condenses key data and characteristics of Hawai‘i soils from the Hawaii Soil Survey, and summarizes them into a language and format understandable to a wide audience. The “Interactive Soil Map” provides concise descriptions of Hawai‘i’s 297 different soil and land-cover types, providing general information on the topographic location, climate, and more detailed information describing soil attributes such as water retention, fertility, acidity or alkalinity, organic matter, and physical structure.
The Hawai‘i Soil Atlas was made possible and funded by the Agribusiness Development Corporation, an attached agency to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture.