{"id":77301,"date":"2017-06-06T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arctic-elevation-updated-with-new-high-resolution-data\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:13:10","slug":"arctic-elevation-updated-with-new-high-resolution-data","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/imagery\/imagery\/arctic-elevation-updated-with-new-high-resolution-data","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Elevation updated with new, high-resolution data"},"author":6921,"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":[24141,40161,23011],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551,36561],"class_list":["post-77301","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagery","tag-elevation","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-raster","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"With the largest release of data to date, the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) has significantly expanded the high-resolution coverage of th...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>With the largest release of data to date, the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) has significantly expanded the high-resolution coverage of the Arctic Elevation dataset. The new data is available to ArcGIS users as a part of Esri\u2019s ready-to-use <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/#s=0&amp;q=by%20esri%2C%20arctic%20elevation&amp;md=imagery:11111\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic Elevation layers<\/a>, as well as Esri\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/arcticdemapp.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/explorer\/\">ArcticDEM Explorer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/arcticdemapp.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/change\/\">ArcticDEM Change<\/a> web apps.<\/p>\n<p>The Arctic Elevation dataset provides two-, five-, and eight-meter elevation for land north of 60\u00b0N. To date, 65% of the Arctic is covered\u2014over 51 million square kilometers. As the PGC releases new digital elevation models (DEMs) throughout 2017, high-resolution, two-meter DEMs will gradually expand and replace the coverage of older, eight-meter data. This release alone expands Esri\u2019s Arctic Elevation dataset by an additional six terabytes of two-meter data and one terabyte of five-meter data covering Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and more. The result is more detail than ever\u2014see the improvement for New Siberian Islands (left), Ellesmere Island (center), and Wrangel Island (right).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HighResComparison3.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HighResComparison3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/HighResComparison3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"899\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arctic Elevation, offered as easy-to-access layers, maps, and apps, has numerous applications. Users can deploy these elevation layers in ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, and custom web apps, viewing and analyzing them on-the-fly using dynamic functions like slope, aspect, hillshade, multi-dimensional hillshade, and others. Check out the Columbia Glacier below, for example, visualized with the ArcticDEM Explorer web app using an elevation tinted hillshade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ArcticDEMexplorer_ColumbiaGlacier2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ArcticDEMexplorer_ColumbiaGlacier2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a>Users can also explore Arctic elevation by acquisition date to analyze how Arctic topography changes in different seasons or years. Ever wonder how quickly a particular glacier is receding? Now you can find out for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in learning more? 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