{"id":71701,"date":"2016-04-22T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/england-wales-high-resolution-elevation-in-esri-world-elevation-services\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:08:42","slug":"england-wales-high-resolution-elevation-in-esri-world-elevation-services","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/analytics\/analytics\/england-wales-high-resolution-elevation-in-esri-world-elevation-services","title":{"rendered":"England &#038; Wales high resolution elevation in Esri World Elevation Services"},"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":[23341,22931,22941],"tags":[22951,24111,30491,30501,23951,24131,30511,24141,24151,30521,25501,24381,40161,24181,30531,24191,37081,24211,23391,24241,24251],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-71701","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-imagery","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-content","tag-aspect","tag-bare-earth","tag-coastal","tag-community-maps-program","tag-dem","tag-dtm","tag-elevation","tag-esri_earth","tag-esri_elevation","tag-flood","tag-lidar","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-multi-directional-hillshade","tag-multidirectional","tag-nagi-fusion-method","tag-risk-assessment","tag-slope","tag-spatial-analytics","tag-tinted-hillshade","tag-topography","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Recently, an extensive collection of Lidar data of England and Wales was made available by\u00a0Environment agency of England\u00a0and\u00a0Natural R...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Recently, an extensive collection of Lidar data of England and Wales was made available by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/environment-agency\" target=\"_blank\">Environment agency of England<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naturalresources.wales\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Wales<\/a>\u00a0respectively.\u00a0 At\u00a0<strong><em>2 meters resolution\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(cell size), the lidar derived DTM (bare earth) covers nearly three quarters (~70%) of England and Wales. The data mainly covers flood plains, coastal zones and urban areas and will aid in improving the quality of flood risk modeling.<\/p>\n<p>We are excited to make this high-resolution collection available in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2014\/07\/11\/introducing-esris-world-elevation-services\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esri World Elevation services<\/a>.\u00a0 With this update, there is now\u00a0<strong><em>25 times<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0more detail in these countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Pagham.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-62267  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Pagham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1502\" height=\"994\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Pagham coastal area in South East England depicted with 2 meter Lidar derived digital terrain model<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VindolandaRomanFort.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VindolandaRomanFort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1502\" height=\"1034\" \/><\/a>Vindolanda Roman fort depicted with 2 meter Lidar derived digital terrain model<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world elevation image services (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=58a541efc59545e6b7137f961d7de883\" target=\"_blank\">Terrain\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\" target=\"_blank\">TopoBathy<\/a>), which provide online access to a global collection of multi-resolution and multisource elevation data, can be used for visualization (such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=3cedfc19d7b941d89ee15b0e2f454070\">multi-directional hillshade<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=2729e694b9b34738a59075aed367dedd\">tinted hillshade<\/a>) and analysis. In ArcGIS for Desktop, a temporary layer can be generated using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/desktop.arcgis.com\/en\/arcmap\/latest\/tools\/data-management-toolbox\/make-image-server-layer.htm\">Make Image Server Layer<\/a>\u00a0 tool to use as an input in GP tools to perform the analysis. The parameters such as the extent, cell size, query and output coordinate system can be defined using <a href=\"http:\/\/desktop.arcgis.com\/en\/arcmap\/latest\/tools\/data-management-toolbox\/make-image-server-layer.htm\">Make Image Server Layer<\/a>\u00a0 tool to produce the output layer. A query will select a subset of items within the image service thus restricting the analysis to a particular data source available in these services. For example, a definition query of\u00a0<em>&#8220;ProductName&#8221; = &#8216;England_DTM2m&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0will filter data pertaining to England 2m DTM only.<\/p>\n<p>These global layers are available free of cost to every ArcGIS Organizational account user. The updates will also be rolled out to world elevation derivative products &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=7029fb60158543ad845c7e1527af11e4\" target=\"_blank\">Terrain 3D<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=f47a5a35be8c41f7890c1763f65a6d9f\" target=\"_blank\">World Hillshade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the coverage of the World Elevation services check our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=3af669838f594b378f90c10f98e46a7f\" target=\"_blank\">Elevation coverage map<\/a>. Additionally, to contribute high-resolution elevation data to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/living-atlas\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Living Atlas of the World<\/a>, check\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/living-atlas\/contribute\/community-maps-for-elevation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Esri Community Maps for Elevation<\/a> program.<\/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. 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