{"id":486142,"date":"2019-04-10T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=486142"},"modified":"2019-04-09T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T05:00:48","slug":"updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-april-2019","title":{"rendered":"Updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers and Tools (April 2019)"},"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":[23341,22931,22941],"tags":[371692,371682,371702,24381,40191],"industry":[],"product":[36951,36581,36551,36561],"class_list":["post-486142","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-imagery","category-mapping","tag-3dep","tag-elevation-analysis-tools","tag-estonia","tag-lidar","tag-world-elevation-services","product-image-server","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"ArcGIS Living Atlas world elevation layers (Terrain and TopoBathy) are updated with number of lidar derived datasets in April 2019 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 and tools to support analysis and visualization across the ArcGIS platform. In this release, 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 following elevation datasets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lidar derived 1, 5 and 10 meter DEMs covering Estonia from Estonia Land Board<\/li>\n<li>Lidar derived 0.5 meter DEM covering Grand Geneva metropolitan region of France and Switzerland from SITG<\/li>\n<li>Lidar derived 5 meter DEMs covering Austrian States of Tyrol and Carinthia from Land Tyrol and Land Carinthia respectively<\/li>\n<li>Updated 1 arc sec (~ 30 meter), 1\/3 arc sec (~ 10 meter) and 2 arc sec (~ 60 meter) covering North America, United States and Alaska respectively from USGS 3DEP<\/li>\n<li>Updated 2 meter coverage of\u00a0England from Environmental Agency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let\u2019s see a few examples highlighting the improvements.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Vijandi, Estonia \u2013 fine details depicted with 1 m lidar DTM (bottom) in urban area over WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (top)<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":486212,"id":486212,"title":"Vijandi, Estonia 24m WorldDEM4Ortho","filename":"Vijandi_12k_before.png","filesize":93545,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Vijandi_12k_before.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-april-2019\/vijandi_12k_before","alt":"Vijandi, Estonia 24m WorldDEM4Ortho","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"","name":"vijandi_12k_before","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":486142,"date":"2019-04-08 22:46:43","modified":"2019-04-08 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style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><em>Geneva, Switzerland \u2013 fine details depicted with 50 cm lidar DTM (bottom) in city over WorldDEM4Ortho 24 m (top)<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":486192,"id":486192,"title":"Geneva, Switzerland 24m WorldDEM4Ortho","filename":"Geneva_11k_before.png","filesize":111280,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Geneva_11k_before.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-april-2019\/geneva_11k_before","alt":"Geneva, Switzerland 24m WorldDEM4Ortho","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"","name":"geneva_11k_before","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":486142,"date":"2019-04-08 22:46:33","modified":"2019-04-08 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this release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=a1ba14d09df14f42ad6ca3c4bcebf3b4\">Slope Map<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=63fe6ad86c3d4536a3c44a0fbad0045e\">Aspect Map<\/a> functions are enhanced to return class values and descriptions with legend instead of 3 band RGB values. This enhancement will also allow you to change the pre-defined symbology from client side (desktop or AGOL).<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":486252,"id":486252,"title":"Slope and Aspect Map Legend","filename":"Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","filesize":4168,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-and-tools-april-2019\/slope_aspectmap_legend","alt":"Slope and Aspect Map Legend","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"","name":"slope_aspectmap_legend","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":486142,"date":"2019-04-08 23:02:40","modified":"2019-04-08 23:02:59","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":340,"height":253,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","medium-width":340,"medium-height":253,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","medium_large-width":340,"medium_large-height":253,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","large-width":340,"large-height":253,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","1536x1536-width":340,"1536x1536-height":253,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","2048x2048-width":340,"2048x2048-height":253,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","card_image-width":340,"card_image-height":253,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Slope_AspectMap_Legend.png","wide_image-width":340,"wide_image-height":253}},"image_position":"left-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Elevation Analysis Tools:<\/p>\n<p>With this release, elevation analysis tools (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=3300cfc33ca74a9fac69d2e0f4ea46e5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=1ff463dbeac14b619b9edbd7a9437037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viewshed<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=05e807869f6f4141893bb7de56d7135c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summarize Elevation<\/a>) no longer charge credits and are free with an AGOL subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis tools now include 10 meter Estonia data, which means if you run these tools over Estonia using desktop clients (ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap) and select DEM resolution as 10m or Finest, the analysis will be performed using 10 m Estonia data.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=4aa7e7ae8b964ee88c78cc261b9faf82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elevation profile web application template<\/a>\u00a0available via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/arcgis-online\/create-maps\/choose-configurable-app.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_9FCDE4EAB8F448E3859FDEF0EF59BBB7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArcGIS Online configurable apps<\/a>\u00a0uses the \u2018Finest\u2019 DEM resolution as default and will automatically use 10 m data in Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>These data updates will also be rolled out to other world elevation derivative products \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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=f47a5a35be8c41f7890c1763f65a6d9f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Hillshade<\/a> in this quarter.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the various data sources available in 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>. Esri will keep improving 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. 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'\/>"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":120371,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2014-07-11 16:30:42","post_date_gmt":"2014-07-11 16:30:42","post_content":"","post_title":"Introducing Esri\u2019s World Elevation Services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"introducing-esris-world-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2014-07-11 16:30:42","post_modified_gmt":"2014-07-11 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