{"id":2515092,"date":"2024-10-04T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2515092"},"modified":"2024-10-04T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T19:04:44","slug":"lidar-derived-high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-october-2024","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/lidar-derived-high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-october-2024","title":{"rendered":"Lidar derived high resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers (October 2024)"},"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":[483222,30511,24761,24381,29531],"industry":[],"product":[421922,36951,36581,36551,36561,36861],"class_list":["post-2515092","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-announcements","category-imagery","tag-austria","tag-dtm","tag-germany","tag-lidar","tag-usa","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 2024, elevation layers have been updated with lidar derived DTM\u2019s of Hesse (Germany), Austria and parts of USA.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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 lidar derived high-resolution Digital Terrain Models (DTM\u2019s).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=58a541efc59545e6b7137f961d7de883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terrain<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TopoBathy<\/a>\u00a0layers are updated with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HVBG\u2019s lidar derived 1 meter DTM\u2019s covering Hesse state of Germany.<\/li>\n<li>Bundesamt f\u00fcr Eich- und Vermessungswesen\u2019s (BEV) 1 meter lidar derived DTM\u2019s covering the entire country of Austria. This is the latest data update from BEV.<\/li>\n<li>Expanded coverage of USGS 3DEP 1 meter lidar derived DTM\u2019s covering areas of the conterminous United States. In this release, entire 3DEP 1 meter collection was reprocessed and approximately 402,100 sq kms (~ 155250 sq miles) of new coverage has been added. The graphic below shows the new additions (magenta) along with previously available coverage (green).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2515122,"id":2515122,"title":"USGS_3DEP1m_coverage","filename":"USGS_3DEP1m_coverage.jpg","filesize":269678,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/10\/USGS_3DEP1m_coverage.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/lidar-derived-high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-october-2024\/usgs_3dep1m_coverage-3","alt":"USGS 3DEP1m coverage October 2024","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"ca5","name":"usgs_3dep1m_coverage-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2515092,"date":"2024-10-03 21:20:45","modified":"2025-02-04 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