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SASSA Field Recording Tool
The SASSA field tool provides users with a means of producing standardised soil descriptions that can be saved in PDF or RTF format and incorporated into your site report or archive.

Soil descriptions are stored on a context basis, within a heirarchical system of sections and sites. Hence a site can contain multiple sections, and a section can contain multiple contexts and their associated soil descriptions. It is left to the user to decide what constitutes a site, section or context as best suits their needs (more information here).

Soil descriptions can be exported as as a tabulated report consisting either of individual contexts, or an entire section or site.

SASSA is not designed for long-term data storage and the security of data cannot be guaranteed, it is advisable to back up data regularly, and we ask that you delete data once you have finished with it.

Terminology
If this data is to be stored in a digital archive users are urged to ensure that the terminology used is consistent with local or national standards. In the UK wordlists are provided by FISH.

Multi-user sites
We anticipate that many sites will have multiple users recording different sections and contexts. To avoid possible conflicts, each user must log in to their own account and build there own site archive of descriptions.

However, the SASSA field tool uses a system of imports and permissions to allow one designated user to collate individual users data into a single site report.

Printable recording sheets
The recording Site, Section and Context recording sheets in the Field Tool can be printed to provide a paper-based recording sheet.

To aid field recording SASSA provides a PDF help sheet containing images and definitions to help you with you description and a recording sheet in RTF format that can be saved and edited. To access click on the links below:


 * [[media:Soil_description_help_sheet.pdf|Field Recording Help Sheet]][[image:pdflogo.jpg|15px]]
 * [[media:Recording_sheet.rtf|Editable Field Recording Sheet]][[image:Rtflogo.png|20px]]

The SASSA recording system provides a full soil description record. This can be rather time consuming and the user may want to adapt this for there own needs. Further information about when and where to record to different soil properties can be found in the tutorial at Why record soil properties?