{"id":2633912,"date":"2024-12-20T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2633912"},"modified":"2024-12-20T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:23:58","slug":"lidar-derived-updates-to-world-elevation-layers-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/lidar-derived-updates-to-world-elevation-layers-december-2024","title":{"rendered":"Lidar derived updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers (December 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":[483222,381342,30511,24381,29531],"industry":[],"product":[421922,36951,36581,36551,36561,36861],"class_list":["post-2633912","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-announcements","category-imagery","tag-austria","tag-canada","tag-dtm","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 December 2024, elevation layers have been updated with lidar derived DTM\u2019s of Canada, Austria and 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><strong><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:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Natural Resources Canada\u2019s (NRCan) lidar derived High-Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM) of 1 meter. In this release over 750,000 km\u00b2 new data has been added, which brings total coverage of HRDEM to nearly 1,230,000 km\u00b2 spanning across ten provinces (see map below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2633982,"id":2633982,"title":"Canada_HRDEM1m_coverage_Dec2024","filename":"Canada_HRDEM1m_coverage_Dec2024.jpg","filesize":256768,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Canada_HRDEM1m_coverage_Dec2024.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/lidar-derived-updates-to-world-elevation-layers-december-2024\/canada_hrdem1m_coverage_dec2024","alt":"Canada HRDEM1m coverage","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"Canada HRDEM1m coverage","name":"canada_hrdem1m_coverage_dec2024","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2633912,"date":"2024-12-18 23:49:13","modified":"2024-12-18 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Resources Canada\u2019s (NRCan) lidar derived High-Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM) of 2 meters covering about 51,000 km\u00b2 in southern part of the country.<\/li>\n<li>Bundesamt f\u00fcr Eich- und Vermessungswesen\u2019s (BEV) 10 meter lidar derived DTM\u2019s covering the entire country of Austria.<\/li>\n<li>USGS\u2019s 1\/3 arc second (~ 10 meters) seamless DEM dataset for the United States with full coverage of the 48 conterminous states, Hawaii, Alaska, and U.S. territories.<\/li>\n<li>USGS\u2019s 1 arc second (~30 meters) seamless DEM dataset for the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, and Mexico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Profile<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=1ff463dbeac14b619b9edbd7a9437037\" target=\"_blank\" 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data updates will be rolled out to the world elevation tiled services \u2013\u00a0Elevation 3D (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=7029fb60158543ad845c7e1527af11e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terrain3D<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=0c69ba5a5d254118841d43f03aa3e97d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TopoBathy3D<\/a>) and\u00a0Hillshade (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=1b243539f4514b6ba35e7d995890db1d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Hillshade<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=428539ef9cab4017b69d15a40a9ee98b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Hillshade (Dark)<\/a>\u00a0) tentatively by the end of next quarter.<\/p>\n<p>To see the coverage extents of each source comprising World Elevation services, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=3af669838f594b378f90c10f98e46a7f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elevation Coverage Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can help in improving these services by contributing high-resolution elevation data to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/participate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living Atlas of the World<\/a>. To participate and learn more, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/Cascade\/index.html?appid=f5818ab82666401b8e4a06632e3f51fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esri Community Maps for Elevation<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/p>\n"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":2515092,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2024-10-04 11:57:19","post_date_gmt":"2024-10-04 18:57:19","post_content":"","post_title":"Lidar derived high resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers (October 2024)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"lidar-derived-high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-october-2024","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-10-04 12:04:44","post_modified_gmt":"2024-10-04 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