{"id":120371,"date":"2014-07-11T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/introducing-esris-world-elevation-services\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:30:42","slug":"introducing-esris-world-elevation-services","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/analytics\/analytics\/introducing-esris-world-elevation-services","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Esri\u2019s World Elevation Services"},"author":4501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,22931,22941,22771,23051],"tags":[24111,22801,22981,24131,24141,24151,24981,24171,40161,24191,22821,24211,23391,24241,24251],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-120371","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-imagery","category-mapping","category-natural-resources","category-water","tag-aspect","tag-bathymetry","tag-community-maps","tag-dem","tag-elevation","tag-esri_earth","tag-hydro","tag-land","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-nagi-fusion-method","tag-oceans-and-maritime","tag-slope","tag-spatial-analytics","tag-tinted-hillshade","tag-topography","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"\n\nElevation data supports numerous GIS applications ranging from deriving slope and aspect, stream delineation, cut and fill analysis, vi...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

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Elevation data supports numerous GIS applications ranging from deriving slope and aspect, stream delineation, cut and fill analysis, viewshed analysis, orthorectification of aerial photography or satellite imagery, rendering 3D visualizations, creating relief maps, and for various types of analysis and visualizations.<\/p>\n

Esri makes it easy to work with elevation data by offering two dynamic world elevation image services (Terrain\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0TopoBathy<\/a>). These services provide online access to a global collection of multi-resolution and multisource elevation data. This collection includes best publicly available data and community data with resolutions ranging from 1000 meters to 3 meters. The services provide a single endpoint for desktop and web applications to access elevation values and derived products. The great thing about these services is that you no longer have to store, compile, and process terabytes of elevation data on your local machine. All of the pre and post processing that goes along with these types of datasets has been taken care of for you.<\/p>\n

The elevation services are available for use within the ArcGIS Online platform, and are part of the Living Atlas<\/a>. You can access the entire collection of layers along with geo-processing tools<\/a> from within the Elevation Layers Group<\/a>\u00a0on ArcGIS Online. \u00a0Access to these global layers is free and does not consume any credits; all you need is an ArcGIS Organizational account. It\u2019s that easy!<\/p>\n

Below is a visual representation of the elevation layers available within the Elevation Layers Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Elevation<\/a>Figure 1: Elevation layers available on ArcGIS online<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it works: We\u2019ve built two dynamic world elevation image services named Terrain\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0TopoBathy<\/a>. These services provide you access to the raw elevation data. In addition to the raw data, we\u2019ve compiled a carefully selected set of derivative layers (like hillshade<\/a>, slope<\/a> and tinted hillshade<\/a> \u2013 see figure 1). The derivative layers have been built by adding a server function on top of the Terrain\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0TopoBathy<\/a> services.<\/p>\n

To learn more about how to use the raster functions via ArcGIS Online and Desktop, see the following:<\/p>\n