{"id":70901,"date":"2016-02-05T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/south-pole-imagery-now-available\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:07:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:07:46","slug":"south-pole-imagery-now-available","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/imagery\/imagery\/south-pole-imagery-now-available","title":{"rendered":"South Pole imagery now available!"},"author":3881,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22931],"tags":[22951,23171,22981,23951,40161,23151,23161,27251,23011,27261],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-70901","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagery","tag-arcgis-content","tag-basemaps","tag-community-maps","tag-community-maps-program","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-map-services","tag-maps","tag-polar","tag-raster","tag-reference","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"In response to feedback from our user community, the ArcGIS Content Team is happy to announce the release of the\u00a0Antarctic imagery map\u00a0...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>In response to feedback from our user community, the ArcGIS Content Team is happy to announce the release of the\u00a0Antarctic imagery map\u00a0as a new basemap! This map is designed to supplement the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=7ec08e5438304dbfa1e26181503e6fa8\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic Imagery<\/a> map, which we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2015\/07\/13\/two-views-from-the-top-of-the-world\/http:\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2014\/07\/02\/the-arctic-ocean-basemap\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously blogged<\/a>\u00a0about publishing last year. The Antarctic Imagery Basemap uses the WGS 1984 Antarctic Polar Stereographic\u00a0(WKID 3031) and is cached from ~1:900 million to ~1:110k. It provides 15 meter TerraColor imagery for the southern polar region (90 to 50 degrees south latitude), though the projection will support display of data to lower latitudes. We are planning to complement this basemap with Antarctic Ocean Base and Reference layers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esri.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapJournal\/index.html?appid=2b1fd17f462047c087e9ce27152b2379\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads.esri.com\/blogs\/arcgisonline\/BetterBlog_Image_AntarcticImagery_StoryMap.jpg\" alt=\"story map image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Antarctic Imagery map is designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other data for the Antarctic region. 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