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ArcGIS Living Atlas provides foundational elevation layers that all ArcGIS users consume in their maps, scenes, and applications. Terrain3D<\/a> provides a default global elevation surface in scenes whether you are using ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Online Scene Viewer. Similarly, World Hillshade<\/a> provides a default relief background in various basemaps (such as Topographic<\/a>, Terrain with Labels<\/a>) that are available across the ArcGIS system. These layers are compiled using the best available datasets from open data sources, Esri Community Maps contributors, and commercial data providers. These layers in ArcGIS Online have just been improved by integrating Maxar Intelligence\u2019s Precision3D<\/a> data, which is the most accurate 3D representation of Earth available on the commercial market.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Esri integrated Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho 24m<\/a> in elevation layers and derivatives, which brought significant quality and accuracy improvements over SRTM 30m. WorldDEM4Ortho was a hybrid DSM\/DTM product where buildings were removed in urban areas, but vegetation\/forest heights remain. Though urban areas were flattened in WorldDEM4Ortho to provide a better surface for overlaying 3D buildings, in some instances, small hills in the urban areas were also flattened during the building removal process and the void filling\/smoothing resulted in heights which were either more elevated or depressed than actual.<\/p>\n

To further improve over WorldDEM4Ortho, we are excited to share that the Terrain 3D<\/a>, TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, World Hillshade<\/a> and World Hillshade (Dark)<\/a> layers are now enhanced with bare earth elevation data from Maxar’s Precision3D<\/a> for parts of the globe.\u00a0The Precision3D Digital Terrain Models (DTM) at 50 cm resolution are created by pairing Maxar\u2019s extensive archive of high-resolution satellite imagery with the company\u2019s patented 3D technology.<\/p>\n

The first rollout of Maxar Precision3D<\/a> includes large parts of Asia and Africa along with a few areas in Europe, North America, South America and Australia covering approximately 27 million sq kms area (~10.4 million sq miles) as shown below. In June 2025<\/a>, ~ 6 million sq kms of new data has been added bringing the\u00a0total coverage to ~ 33 million sq kms<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2381532,"id":2381532,"title":"MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01","filename":"MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01.png","filesize":423069,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=2381532","alt":"Maxar Precision3D coverage","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"Maxar Precision3D coverage","name":"maxarprecision3dcoverage_v2024r01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2367472,"date":"2024-06-14 23:10:51","modified":"2024-06-17 18:45:19","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":1784,"height":1134,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01.png","medium-width":411,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":488,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01.png","large-width":1699,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01-1536x976.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":976,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01.png","2048x2048-width":1784,"2048x2048-height":1134,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01-732x465.png","card_image-width":732,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MaxarPrecision3DCoverage_v2024r01-1699x1080.png","wide_image-width":1699,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=2daa50a1091b4395925e816a8bb05ae0"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Let\u2019s see a few enhancements in World Hillshade and Terrain3D with Maxar Precision3D in 50 cm. 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With the rollout of Maxar’s Precision3D<\/a>, the elevation surface is closer to reality thus providing a better ground surface for 3D overlays and relief background.<\/p>\n

Esri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers and derived information products with more high resolution content from Maxar, open data sources, and Community Maps contributors.<\/p>\n

To see the coverage of various other data sources comprising the World Elevation services, check out the Elevation coverage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can help in improving these services by contributing high-resolution elevation data to\u00a0Living Atlas of the World<\/a>. To participate and learn more, check out the\u00a0Esri Community Maps for Elevation<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/p>\n"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":120361,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2014-07-14 05:00:03","post_date_gmt":"2014-07-14 05:00:03","post_content":"","post_title":"Introducing Esri\u2019s Next Generation Hillshade","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"introducing-esris-next-generation-hillshade","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-10-11 15:35:29","post_modified_gmt":"2019-10-11 22:35:29","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/introducing-esris-next-generation-hillshade\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":123251,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_date_gmt":"2018-03-06 13:24:21","post_content":"Elevation surface provides foundational layer for your work in 3D.\u00a0ArcGIS 3D clients such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online\u00a0Web Scene Viewer<\/a>, and\u00a0ArcGIS Earth<\/a> comes with a default elevation layer - Terrain 3D<\/a>. \u00a0Along with this default elevation layer, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> also provides TopoBathy 3D<\/a>, which combines topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) into one seamless layer. Terrain 3D and TopoBathy 3D are tiled elevation services that uses the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) tile format and are derived from World Elevation Terrain<\/a> and TopoBathy<\/a> respectively.\n\nA few weeks ago World Elevation layers (Terrain & TopoBathy) and Tools<\/a> were enhanced with Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho<\/a>. These updates are now rolled out to 3D elevation layers (Terrain 3D<\/a> and TopoBathy 3D<\/a>). Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho is a global dataset covering the entire earth\u2019s land surface (excluding the countries of Azerbaijan, DR Congo and Ukraine), which\u00a0has a resolution of 0.8 arc second (approx. 24 meters). It brings many quality improvements especially over urban areas in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, which were previously using SRTM 30 m dataset.\n\nSRTM is a digital surface model (DSM), which represents elevation values of the natural and built features on the earth surface such as buildings, vegetation, etc. Due to its DSM nature and coarser resolution, urban areas especially with dense and high rise buildings appear to have small hills or undulating surface. When you overlay 3D buildings\/objects on this undulating surface, it seems to be either sinking or floating on the ground. In Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho, urban areas are flattened to give DTM-like product thus\u00a0providing much better surface than SRTM 30 m. Let's see a few examples showing improvements over urban areas in before and after comparisons.\n

Auckland, New Zealand \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat ground surface (WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m) in comparison to previously undulating surface (SRTM 30 m) where buildings seem to be sinking in the ground.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\"Auckland<\/a>\n

Berlin, Germany \u2013 3D buildings are now sitting nicely on flat surface of WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (after) in comparison to undulating surface of SRTM 30 m (before).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\"Berlin<\/a>\n\nEsri will keep improving the World Elevation Layers, Tools and derived information products with high resolution content from open sources and community maps for elevation program. You can look at the current data sources used by checking our Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>. 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