{"id":2112872,"date":"2023-10-26T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2112872"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:23:09","slug":"high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-october-2023","title":{"rendered":"High resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers and Tools (October 2023)"},"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":[23341,37101,22931],"tags":[763592,772082,761002,772092,630691],"industry":[],"product":[421922,36951,36581,36551,36561,36861],"class_list":["post-2112872","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-announcements","category-imagery","tag-gebco","tag-ign-france","tag-ingv-italy","tag-linz-new-zealand","tag-usgs-3dep","product-arcgis","product-image-server","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro","product-api-rest"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":4501,"user_firstname":"Rajinder","user_lastname":"Nagi","nickname":"Rajinder Nagi","user_nicename":"rajnagi","display_name":"Rajinder Nagi","user_email":"rnagi@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:16:05","user_description":"Rajinder has more than 20 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 &amp; Regional Planning.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RNagi_Profile.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"}],"short_description":"In October 2023, elevation layers have been updated with high-res datasets of France, New Zealand, USA, Italy along with global bathymetry","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/\">ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a>\u00a0provides foundation elevation layers and tools to support analysis and visualization across the ArcGIS system. These layers get updated quarterly with high resolution elevation data from federal agencies, open sources, and community maps program. Esri is providing these datasets as ready to use services that benefit the GIS community and extend the use of data in new and innovative ways. In this release, world elevation layers are updated with many high-resolution elevation datasets.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=58a541efc59545e6b7137f961d7de883\">Terrain<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\">TopoBathy<\/a>\u00a0layers are updated with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Institut national de l&#8217;information g\u00e9ographique et foresti\u00e8res (IGN-F) LiDAR derived 1 meter DTM\u2019s covering the country of France.<\/li>\n<li>LiDAR derived 0.3 meter (1-foot) DTM\u2019s covering Lancaster County of Nebraska, USA.<\/li>\n<li>INGV\u2019s 10 meters DTM covering the country of Italy.<\/li>\n<li>Land Information New Zealand\u2019s LiDAR derived 1 meter DTM\u2019s covering partial areas of New Zealand. In this release, ~44,570 sq kms (~ 17208 sq miles) of new data has been added bringing total coverage to ~144,870 sq kms (~ 17208 sq miles) (see map below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2112972,"id":2112972,"title":"New Zealand 1m coverage Oct 2023","filename":"NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","filesize":139752,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-october-2023\/newzealand_coverage_oct2023-2","alt":"New Zealand 1m coverage as of October 2023","author":"4501","description":"New Zealand 1m coverage in esri elevation services as of October 2023","caption":"","name":"newzealand_coverage_oct2023-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2112872,"date":"2023-10-24 18:00:25","modified":"2023-10-24 18:09:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":750,"height":719,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","thumbnail-width":209,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","medium-width":272,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","medium_large-width":750,"medium_large-height":719,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","large-width":750,"large-height":719,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","1536x1536-width":750,"1536x1536-height":719,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","2048x2048-width":750,"2048x2048-height":719,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","card_image-width":485,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1-e1698187327915.png","wide_image-width":750,"wide_image-height":719}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NewZealand_coverage_Oct2023-1.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<ul>\n<li>USGS\u2019s 3DEP 1 meter lidar derived DTM\u2019s covering areas of the conterminous United States and Island of Hawaii. In this release, approximately 307,860 sq kms (~ 118,865 sq miles) of new coverage has been added. The graphic below shows the new addition (magenta) along with previously available coverage (green).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2113782,"id":2113782,"title":"USGS 3DEP1m coverage Oct 2023","filename":"USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698187119952.png","filesize":244312,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698187119952.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-october-2023\/usgs_3dep1m_coverage_oct2023-3","alt":"USGS 3DEP1m coverage as of October 2023","author":"4501","description":"USGS 3DEP1m coverage in esri elevation services as of October 2023","caption":"","name":"usgs_3dep1m_coverage_oct2023-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2112872,"date":"2023-10-24 19:12:55","modified":"2023-10-24 19:14:13","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":640,"height":434,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698186994498-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698186994498-385x261.png","medium-width":385,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698186994498-768x521.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":521,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698187119952.png","large-width":640,"large-height":434,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698187119952.png","1536x1536-width":640,"1536x1536-height":434,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698187119952.png","2048x2048-width":640,"2048x2048-height":434,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698186994498-686x465.png","card_image-width":686,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2-e1698187119952.png","wide_image-width":640,"wide_image-height":434}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_Coverage_Oct2023-2.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\">TopoBathy<\/a>\u00a0layer is updated with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swisstopo\u2019s 1-3 meters swissBATHY3D bathymetric datasets covering lake beds of Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO_2023) 15 arc second (approx. 464 meters) dataset covering entire globe. [GEBCO Compilation Group (2023) GEBCO 2023 Grid (doi:10.5285\/f98b053b-0cbc-6c23-e053-6c86abc0af7b)]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New Raster Function:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=58a541efc59545e6b7137f961d7de883\">Terrain<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\">TopoBathy<\/a> layers now have a new raster function \u2018Elevation_Feet\u2019 to dynamically provide heights\/depths in feet. The function can be invoked from processing templates in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online Map Viewer. Pop-ups on elevation layers have been updated to provide heights in both meters and feet and can be used in webmaps and web apps.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2113542,"id":2113542,"title":"Terrain_popup","filename":"Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","filesize":55711,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-october-2023\/terrain_popup-3","alt":"Popup on Terrain showing elevation values in feet and meter","author":"4501","description":"Popup on Terrain showing elevation values in feet and meter","caption":"","name":"terrain_popup-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2112872,"date":"2023-10-24 18:42:25","modified":"2023-10-24 18:43:21","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":450,"height":319,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":151,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","medium-width":368,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","medium_large-width":450,"medium_large-height":319,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","large-width":450,"large-height":319,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","1536x1536-width":450,"1536x1536-height":319,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","2048x2048-width":450,"2048x2048-height":319,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","card_image-width":450,"card_image-height":319,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup-2-e1698187417834.png","wide_image-width":450,"wide_image-height":319}},"image_position":"left-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Terrain_popup.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>Ready-To-Use Elevation Tools:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ready-To-Use Elevation Tools (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=3300cfc33ca74a9fac69d2e0f4ea46e5\">Profile<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=1ff463dbeac14b619b9edbd7a9437037\">Viewshed<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=05e807869f6f4141893bb7de56d7135c\">Summarize Elevation<\/a>) are updated with the 10 meters DTM\u2019s of Italy. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=3300cfc33ca74a9fac69d2e0f4ea46e5\">Profile<\/a>\u00a0tool has been updated with GEBCO 2023 grid for 500 m (15 arc second) DEM Resolution option.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s see a few examples highlighting the improvements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Lyon, France \u2013 hilly urban areas depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 meters WorldDEM4Ortho<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2113102,"id":2113102,"title":"Lyon_France","filename":"Lyon_France.gif","filesize":514371,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Lyon_France.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-october-2023\/lyon_france","alt":"Lyon, France \u2013 hilly urban areas depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 meters WorldDEM4Ortho","author":"4501","description":"Lyon, France \u2013 hilly urban areas depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 meters WorldDEM4Ortho","caption":"","name":"lyon_france","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2112872,"date":"2023-10-24 18:13:43","modified":"2023-10-24 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style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France \u2013 a suburb of the city of Nice depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 meters WorldDEM4Ortho<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2113112,"id":2113112,"title":"Saint-Laurent-du-Var_France","filename":"Saint-Laurent-du-Var_France.gif","filesize":605172,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Saint-Laurent-du-Var_France.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-october-2023\/saint-laurent-du-var_france","alt":"Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France \u2013 a suburb of the city of Nice depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 meters WorldDEM4Ortho","author":"4501","description":"Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France \u2013 a suburb of the city of Nice depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 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style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Whangamat\u0101, New Zealand \u2013 improvements depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 meters WorldDEM4Ortho<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2113122,"id":2113122,"title":"Whangamata_NewZealand","filename":"Whangamata_NewZealand.gif","filesize":704875,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Whangamata_NewZealand.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-october-2023\/whangamata_newzealand","alt":"Whangamat\u0101, New Zealand \u2013 improvements depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 meters WorldDEM4Ortho","author":"4501","description":"Whangamat\u0101, New Zealand \u2013 improvements depicted with lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s in comparison to 24 meters 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