{"id":77221,"date":"2017-06-05T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T11:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/world-imagery-updates-may-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:13:10","slug":"world-imagery-updates-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/imagery\/imagery\/world-imagery-updates-may-2017","title":{"rendered":"World Imagery Updates (May 2017)"},"author":6281,"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":[23171,22981,31431,26811,23571,29711,26391],"industry":[],"product":[36551],"class_list":["post-77221","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagery","tag-basemaps","tag-community-maps","tag-digitalglobe","tag-naip","tag-whats-new","tag-whats-new-in-world-imagery","tag-world-imagery","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance the World Imagery map, we released several more updates to our imagery last month. \u00a0The latest...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance the World Imagery map, we released several more updates to our imagery last month. \u00a0The latest updates feature <strong>NAIP 2016 imagery<\/strong> from the USDA Farm Services Agency (FSA) for 16 states, as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wi_naip2016_may2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wi_naip2016_may2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1271\" height=\"698\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NAIP 2016 imagery includes both 1m and 60cm resolution imagery, displayed in the map down to levels 17 and 18, respectively. \u00a0The latest updates supplement the NAIP 2016 imagery for 6 states (i.e.\u00a0Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, and Rhode Island) released earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DigitalGlobe Imagery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The updates also include DigitalGlobe <strong>Basemap +Metro<\/strong> sub-meter resolution imagery for several dozen metro areas around the world. \u00a0We have now updated over 580 of a planned 750 metro areas with the latest DigitalGlobe Basemap +Metro imagery. \u00a0The story map below enables you to see the areas that are planned for update, current status with our latest releases, and \u2018before\u2019 and \u2018after\u2019 examples for several metro areas. \u00a0In the Current Status tab, you can click on individual metro areas to see the current deployment status and an estimated release date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arcgis-content.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=be5921cbc87044a8a44731740013cae9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wi_updates_dg_metro.jpg\" alt=\"World Imagery Enhancements with DigitalGlobe Basemap +Metro Imagery\" width=\"800\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Imagery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, we have also published new imagery for the\u00a0<strong>V\u00e4rnamo Municipality<\/strong>,\u00a0Sweden. \u00a0This community maps addition features recent 9cm aerial imagery for this municipality in southern Sweden, as shown below.<\/p>\n<p>[iframe width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;400&#8243; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; scrolling=&#8221;no&#8221; marginheight=&#8221;0&#8243; marginwidth=&#8221;0&#8243; title=&#8221;Community Maps Imagery for V\u00e4rnamo Municipality,\u00a0Sweden&#8221; src=&#8221;\/\/arcgis-content.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/Embed\/index.html?webmap=3f9bde3e4502481ba4028a87368113cd&amp;amp;extent=14.0465,57.1852,14.0624,57.1902&amp;zoom=true&amp;scale=false&amp;disable_scroll=true&amp;theme=light&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank our contributors for sharing their imagery so it can be made available as part of our World Imagery map. \u00a0If you have imagery that you\u2019d like to share, please visit our\u00a0<a title=\"Esri Community Maps for Imagery\" href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/participate\/#v=community&amp;subTab=what-to-contribute\" target=\"_blank\">Esri Community Maps for Imagery<\/a>\u00a0site\u00a0to get started!<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6281,"user_firstname":"Deane","user_lastname":"Kensok","nickname":"Deane Kensok","user_nicename":"dkensok","display_name":"Deane Kensok","user_email":"dkensok@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:09","user_description":"Deane Kensok has been with Esri since 1990 and is currently the ArcGIS Content CTO and a member of the Living Atlas team.  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