Comparing JD Office and SMS Advanced
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GIS Function     JD Office                SMS Advanced Functions
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Display and      Displays and layers      Displays and layers shapefiles, digital elevation 
Layer Spatial    John Deere layers and    models, MapInfo, National Elevation models, Spatial 
Data             generic shapefiles. JD   Data Transfer Standard elevation models, Tiger 
                 Office generates         data.
                 boundary files and       
                 several other GIS        
                 layers from John         
                 Deere harvest yield      
                 data.	                  
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Supported Yield  John Deere and Ag        All available yield data formats.
Data Formats     Leader yield data.
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Interpret Yield  Creates grid and         Creates grid and contour yield maps; edits yield 
Data             contour yield maps;      data; correlates yield data to other layers, such 
                 edits yield data.        as soil maps or satellite imagery.
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Display          Economic data can be     Economic data can be displayed in tabular format
Economic Data    displayed in tabular     and correlated to spatial layers and displayed as 
                 format and but not       maps. SMS does not have the ability to import 
                 correlated to spatial    economic data from recordkeeping software. Each 
                 layers or maps.          data record must be entered separately.
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Analyze          Summarizes data from     Displays multiple years of yield data in one 
Multiple Years   multiple years in        multiyear average map.
of Data          tabular format.
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Prepare          Creates variable rate    Creates variable rate maps and exports them for 
Variable Rate    maps for John Deere      use in Ag Leader, AgChem, MidTech and Trimble 
Application      controllers.             controllers. The variable-rate maps also can be 
Maps                                      exported as shapefiles, MapInfo files and text 
                                          files. 
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Display and Use  Does not support         Displays gif, jpg, sid, png, tiff, bmp and wmf 
Image Files      image data.              image file formats. Can geo-reference images and 
                                          prepare normalized vegetative indexes (NDVI). (I 
                                          have been unable to display Landsat images in SMS 
                                          properly.)
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Change Map       All data must be in      SMS cannot change data map projections. It has 
Projections      WGS 84 projection.       the ability to import and display most projections. 
                                          Users will need a separate GIS program to change 
                                          the map projection of their data.
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Clip Data to     N/A                      Clips image and soil files to field boundaries.
Field Boundaries
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Profit and Loss  Prepares profit and      Prepares and displays single-year and multiple-
Spatial Maps     loss data in tabular     year profit and loss maps.
                 format.
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