{"id":360362,"date":"2018-11-16T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=360362"},"modified":"2018-11-26T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T22:03:41","slug":"updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-nov-2018","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-nov-2018","title":{"rendered":"Updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers (Nov 2018)"},"author":4501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22851,22931,22941],"tags":[258382,24381,267002,40191],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36951,36581,36551,36561,36991],"class_list":["post-360362","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-government","category-imagery","category-mapping","tag-dark-hillshade","tag-lidar","tag-whats-new-nov-2018","tag-world-elevation-services","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-image-server","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"ArcGIS Living Atlas world elevation layers (Terrain and TopoBathy) are updated with number of lidar derived datasets in Nov 2018 release","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 to support analysis and visualization across the ArcGIS platform. In this release, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/announcements\/introducing-dark-hillshade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dark Hillshade<\/a> layer is introduced and world elevation layers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=58a541efc59545e6b7137f961d7de883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terrain<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TopoBathy<\/a>) are updated with the following elevation datasets:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=58a541efc59545e6b7137f961d7de883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terrain<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TopoBathy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lidar derived 1 meter DEMs from Land NRW covering state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany;<\/li>\n<li>Lidar derived 1 meter DEMs from City of Vienna covering Vienna City, Austria;<\/li>\n<li>Lidar derived 5 meter DEMs from Land Salzburg and Land Vorarlberg covering States of Salzburg and Vorarlberg in Austria respectively;<\/li>\n<li>Lidar derived 1 meter DEMs from Scottish Government covering partial areas of Scotland;<\/li>\n<li>Lidar derived 1 meter DEMs from NRCS, USDA covering partial areas of the conterminous United States;<\/li>\n<li>Updates to 1\/9 arc sec (~3 meter) DEMs from USGS 3DEP covering partial areas of the conterminous United States;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TopoBathy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coastal Relief Models (CRM\u2019s) at 3 arc sec (~ 93 meters) from NOAA covering United States Coast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are a few examples showing improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Nordrhein-Westfalen is the most populous state in Germany and with the addition of 1 m lidar derived bare earth elevation, it gains significant improvements over Airbus WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m data (which include trees\/forest heights). 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Esri will keep improving the World Elevation services, Tools and derivative products by including high resolution data from open source and the Esri Community Maps program. Additionally, to contribute high-resolution elevation data to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/living-atlas\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living Atlas of the World<\/a>, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/participate\/#v=community&amp;subTab=what-to-contribute&amp;section=landelevation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esri Community Maps for Elevation<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/p>\n"}],"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. 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