Michael Dangermond | ArcGIS Blog Author

Michael Dangermond

Michael Dangermond has over 30 years experience in GIS and mapping in such diverse fields as cartography, agriculture, international boundary delineation, environmental protection, regional planning, park planning, land and wildlife conservation, and forestry. He has been working for ESRI since 2010.

April 7, 2026 | Multiple Authors | Mapping

Explore 40 Years of Analysis-Ready Annual NLCD Land Cover
April 2, 2025 | Multiple Authors | Mapping

Make Map Icons with Orthographic Projections
December 30, 2024 | Michael Dangermond | Mapping

Making Negative Positive – How to create a cartographic mask to cover areas of NoData
June 13, 2024 | Multiple Authors | Announcements

How Wild is the Land?
December 11, 2023 | Multiple Authors | Mapping

Discoveries and Revelations: Exploring the World Soils 250m Layers
November 15, 2023 | Michael Dangermond | Decision Support

Getting Started With Multidimensional Soil Layers in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
October 17, 2023 | Multiple Authors | Design and Planning

Sounds Like a Better Plan: USA Transportation Noise, Revised and Updated
September 14, 2023 | Multiple Authors | Water

A Watershed Moment
August 23, 2023 | Multiple Authors | Public Safety

New Updates for Wildfire Aware
May 16, 2023 | Multiple Authors | Real-Time Visualization & Analytics

Be Wildfire Aware within your own maps
October 26, 2022 | Multiple Authors | Public Safety

Wildfire Aware App Design and Implementation
September 26, 2022 | Michael Dangermond | Mapping

Shaded Contour Lines: From Clutter to Context Using the Illusion of Three Dimensions
March 16, 2022 | Multiple Authors | Mapping

The world’s most populated and greenest megacities (and how we found out)
December 16, 2021 | Multiple Authors | Mapping

Sensory Overload: Where are America’s noisiest and brightest cities?
September 30, 2021 | Michael Dangermond | Mapping

USA NLCD Land Cover: Newly Revised and Updated
July 16, 2021 | Michael Dangermond | Mapping

How To Produce a Thematic Image Layer with ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online
May 24, 2021 | Michael Dangermond | Natural Resources

Analyzing Soil Capability for Agriculture in the Living Atlas of the World
March 18, 2021 | Multiple Authors | Mapping

Our Four Favorite Ways to Map American Agriculture
January 19, 2021 | Michael Dangermond | Natural Resources

Making Critical Habitat Rasters With the Living Atlas of the World
October 26, 2020 | Multiple Authors | Mapping

Using Arcade to Extract Meaning from Satellite Fire Detections
July 29, 2020 | Michael Dangermond | Natural Resources

Is Georgia still the Peach State? Getting crop statistics for the USA using ArcGIS Living Atlas.
March 5, 2020 | Michael Dangermond | Manufacturing

Critical Knowledge for Siting Facilities: Two Flood Risk Layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas
October 7, 2019 | Michael Dangermond | Water

Changing Hydrology: Calculating Impervious Surface Change
October 1, 2019 | Michael Dangermond | Mapping

Changing Hydrology: Keeping Track of Impervious Surfaces