Rajinder Nagi
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Rajinder has more than 19 years of experience in GIS and Remote Sensing. In his current role, he leads the community elevation program at Esri and has wide experience in cartographic visualization, image processing, databases and geo-processing. Rajinder has developed a multi-directional hillshade (esriurl.com/NextGenHillshade) algorithm to improve terrain visualization in Esri basemaps. He has also developed a fusion technique (esriurl.com/NAGIfusion) which maintains details and colors when integrating colored rasters with hillshades. Rajinder holds a Master of Science degree in Geoinformatics and a Bachelor of Science degree in Urban & Regional Planning.

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South America & Western Europe SRTM 30 m in Esri World Elevation Services

Esri World Elevation Layers  are enhanced with more detailed void-free 1 arc-second (~ 30 meters) SRTM data (Version 3.0) from NASA for ...

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Enhanced Shuttle Land Elevation Data (SRTM 30 meters) now in Esri World Elevation Services

On September 23, 2014, the White House announced that the highest possible resolution elevation data generated from NASA's Shuttle Ra...

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Introducing Esri’s Next Generation Hillshade

Recently, we released an update to the Esri global collection of multi-scale, multi-resolution and multi-source World Elevation services....

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Introducing Esri’s World Elevation Services

Elevation data supports numerous GIS applications ranging from deriving slope and aspect, stream delineation, cut and fill analysis, vi...

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An alternative to overlaying layer tints on hillshades

By Rajinder Nagi, Esri Cartographic Product Engineer A common cartographic technique is to transparently overlay a colored raster, cal...

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Combining colored and grayshade rasters with high fidelity

By Rajinder Nagi, Esri Cartographic Product Engineer Have you ever noticed when you display a colored raster, such as elevation tints,...

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Creating a grayscale version of any ArcGIS Online basemap

By Rajinder Nagi, Esri Cartographic Product Engineer We recently got a question on Ask a Cartographer in which Julie asked if you can ...

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Classifying Landsat image services to make a land cover map

By Rajinder Nagi, Esri Cartographic Product Engineer In a previous blog entry, we discussed how you can use Landsat image services in ...

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Using the Landsat image services to study land cover change over time

By Rajinder Nagi, Esri Cartographic Product Engineer In our last blog entry, Landsat Services Now Available on ArcGIS Online, we annou...

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