{"id":719222,"date":"2020-01-30T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=719222"},"modified":"2020-01-31T05:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:08:46","slug":"land-cover-geoprocessing-and-paints","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/land-cover-geoprocessing-and-paints","title":{"rendered":"Land Cover, Geoprocessing, and Paints"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[26451,24321,25871,28711],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-719222","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-cartography","tag-geoprocessing","tag-land-cover","tag-styles","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Running a bevy of marvelous geoprocessing tools on Corine land cover data, getting it in shape for the watercolor brush.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><em>Part 2 of a 4-part series on creating this set of posters for the Esri Germany and Esri Switzerland joint user conference.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":716222,"id":716222,"title":"PosterSet","filename":"PosterSet.jpg","filesize":64355,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=716222","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"posterset","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":716162,"date":"2020-01-29 18:39:08","modified":"2020-01-29 18:39:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1062,"height":301,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":132,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":218,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet.jpg","large-width":1062,"large-height":301,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet.jpg","1536x1536-width":1062,"1536x1536-height":301,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet.jpg","2048x2048-width":1062,"2048x2048-height":301,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet-826x234.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":234,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PosterSet.jpg","wide_image-width":1062,"wide_image-height":301}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/land.copernicus.eu\/pan-european\/corine-land-cover\/clc2018?tab=download\">Corine Land Cover program<\/a> is a fantastically resolved satellite-fed en-slicing of Europe into land cover categories. You can download (first create an account, no biggie) a geodatabase stuffed with vector land cover polygons, but better put on a pot of coffee first \u2014it weighs in at 2.6GB. Golly is it ever amazing though.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":719052,"id":719052,"title":"0Corine","filename":"0Corine.jpg","filesize":171123,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=719052","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"0corine","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":719022,"date":"2020-01-30 21:44:28","modified":"2020-01-30 21:44:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine-826x465.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0Corine.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Here\u2019s a closer look.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":719062,"id":719062,"title":"1CorineDetail","filename":"1CorineDetail.jpg","filesize":641959,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=719062","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"1corinedetail","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":719022,"date":"2020-01-30 21:44:33","modified":"2020-01-30 21:44:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail-826x465.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1CorineDetail.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>I want to make a watercolor style map of Germany, though, and this stuff is just way too detailed to work for a national-scale look-at-me sort of map that is supposed to look hand painted. Generalization is one of the most important, but most overlooked, aspects of smaller-scale cartography. Precision in source data is a rare and beautiful treasure. Often, though, there is far too much stacked up bunched up piled up content that, at the output scale, creates visual distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry, we have the power of geoprocessing at our mouse tips. Ready?<\/p>\n<p>First of all I added a layer of <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/browse\/#d=2&amp;q=%22World%20Countries%22\">world countries<\/a>, and used a <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/help\/mapping\/layer-properties\/definition-query.htm\">definition query<\/a> to isolate Germany. Then I ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/analysis\/clip.htm\">Clip<\/a> tool to cookie-cut out only German land cover. Wow, did that ever lighten the load.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":719072,"id":719072,"title":"2Clipped","filename":"2Clipped.jpg","filesize":607761,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=719072","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"2clipped","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":719022,"date":"2020-01-30 21:44:39","modified":"2020-01-30 21:44:39","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped-826x465.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2Clipped.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>I isolated Forest and Urban via a definition query, and saved each as a separate layer for some reason (right-click &gt; data).<\/p>\n<p>Then I ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/data-management\/dissolve.htm\">Dissolve<\/a> tool to turn contiguous areas into whole polygons, getting rid of much of the inter-zonal boundary noise and erasing the regional square cells that the source data is divided up into. I did not choose to make the areas multipart \u2014I need them to be singlepart for when I calculate area in a bit.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":719092,"id":719092,"title":"4dissolve","filename":"4dissolve.jpg","filesize":575890,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=719092","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"4dissolve","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":719022,"date":"2020-01-30 21:44:54","modified":"2020-01-30 21:44:54","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve-826x465.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/4dissolve.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The forests have a fair bit of voids within their perimeters, which will cause some visual erratics at small scale, so I filled them with the dauntingly named <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/data-management\/eliminate-polygon-part.htm\">Eliminate Polygon Part<\/a> tool (advanced license).<\/p>\n<p>Right, area! Ok, time to ask these polygons how big they are. The Calculate Geometry Attributes tool will coax that out of them. Then, based on that, I can zoom out to my full layout extent and <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/data-management\/select-layer-by-attribute.htm\">run some queries<\/a> to get a visual sense for where to draw the line on what areas to keep and which areas are so small they just look like noise on a chunky watercolor map. Here\u2019s what I decided on\u2026<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":719102,"id":719102,"title":"5DefQueryArea","filename":"5DefQueryArea.png","filesize":196748,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=719102","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"5defqueryarea","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":719022,"date":"2020-01-30 21:45:01","modified":"2020-01-30 21:45:01","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":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea-1536x864.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea-826x465.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5DefQueryArea.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Next it\u2019s just a matter of downloading and installing (catalog &gt; styles &gt; right-click &gt; add) the <a href=\"https:\/\/esri-styles.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=936edb7f57334763a8247d1019a9de51\">Watercolor style<\/a> for ArcGIS Pro and applying that to our newly dissolved and filled and culled polygons. See how I applied the style to the background? You can do that by adding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=9d87b96d48714e7ca9c89ab63f2c3cd7\">global background<\/a> layer, or just applying the style to the map frame\u2019s background in a layout (in a layout, right-click the map frame &gt; properties &gt; paint brush tab).<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":719112,"id":719112,"title":"6Watercolor","filename":"6Watercolor.jpg","filesize":262832,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=719112","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"6watercolor","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":719022,"date":"2020-01-30 21:45:07","modified":"2020-01-30 21:45:07","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor-826x465.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6Watercolor.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>At this point it still seemed pretty flat. If I were really painting this I might try my hand at dabbing in some hillshade. I can\u2019t help myself, let\u2019s give something a quick try. I added a blurred Digital Elevation Model, based on SRTM images (jump over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-paper-terrain-map-of-germany\/\">this post<\/a> to see the source and steps for getting this DEM into shape).<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":719122,"id":719122,"title":"7DEM","filename":"7DEM.png","filesize":217781,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?attachment_id=719122","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"7dem","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":719022,"date":"2020-01-30 21:45:12","modified":"2020-01-30 21:45:12","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":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM-1536x864.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM-826x465.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/01\/7DEM.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Then I ran a Raster Function on it, to render it as an <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/help\/data\/imagery\/aspect-function.htm\">Aspect<\/a> map (color-coded by what direction a slope is facing). 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