{"id":821491,"date":"2020-04-16T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=821491"},"modified":"2020-04-16T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:07:09","slug":"high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-april-2020","title":{"rendered":"High resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers (April 2020)"},"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":[24711,630701,630711,24381,630691],"industry":[],"product":[421922,36571,36951,36581,36551,36561,36861,36601],"class_list":["post-821491","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-imagery","category-mapping","tag-australia","tag-geoscience","tag-ifsar","tag-lidar","tag-usgs-3dep","product-arcgis","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-image-server","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro","product-api-rest","product-developers"],"acf":{"short_description":"In this release, world elevation layers (Terrain and TopoBathy) are updated with many lidar derived high-resolution elevation datasets","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/\">ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World<\/a> provides foundation elevation layers and tools to support analysis and visualization across the ArcGIS platform. These layers get updated quarterly with high-resolution elevation data from open sources and community maps program. In this release, world elevation layers are updated with a few high-resolution elevation datasets as below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=58a541efc59545e6b7137f961d7de883\">Terrain<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c753e5bfadb54d46b69c3e68922483bc\">TopoBathy<\/a> layers are updated with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expanded coverage of USGS 3DEP 1-meter DTM\u2019s covering partial areas of the conterminous United States.<\/li>\n<li>USGS 3DEP 5 meters DTM\u2019s from ifSAR covering Alaska state of United States.<\/li>\n<li>Lidar derived 1-meter DTM covering the Moreton Bay region of Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Lidar derived 1-meter DTM\u2019s from Geoscience Australia covering partial areas of Australia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this release, approximately 401,000 square kilometers of new coverage of USGS 3DEP 1 meter has been added. The graphic below shows the new addition (magenta) along with previously available coverage (green).<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":821571,"id":821571,"title":"3DEP 1m coverage April 2020","filename":"3dep_beforeAfter_2020r01.png","filesize":134970,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3dep_beforeAfter_2020r01.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-april-2020\/3dep_beforeafter_2020r01","alt":"","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"","name":"3dep_beforeafter_2020r01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":821491,"date":"2020-04-15 23:54:45","modified":"2020-04-16 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are a few examples highlighting the improvements with before and after images.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Simi Valley, CA, USA \u2013 fine details depicted with USGS 3DEP lidar derived 1 meter in a sub-urban landscape in comparison to old NED 10 meters<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":821531,"id":821531,"title":"Simi Valley, California, USA","filename":"simiValley1.gif","filesize":372077,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/04\/simiValley1.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-april-2020\/simivalley1","alt":"","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"","name":"simivalley1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":821491,"date":"2020-04-15 23:53:21","modified":"2020-04-16 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style=\"text-align: center\"><em>The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska \u2013 landscape details depicted with USGS 3DEP ifSAR derived 5 meters in comparison to old USGS 10 meters<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":821601,"id":821601,"title":"Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska","filename":"ThousandSmokesAK3.gif","filesize":414183,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ThousandSmokesAK3.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-april-2020\/thousandsmokesak3","alt":"","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"","name":"thousandsmokesak3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":821491,"date":"2020-04-16 00:02:27","modified":"2020-04-16 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style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Whiteside, <\/em><em>Queensland, Australia &#8211; depicting the fine details of quarries and hilly landscape with lidar derived 1-meter data in comparison to WorldDEM4Ortho 24 meters<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":821521,"id":821521,"title":"Boral Quarry, Whiteside, Australia","filename":"BoralQuarry_whiteside.gif","filesize":329914,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BoralQuarry_whiteside.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-april-2020\/boralquarry_whiteside","alt":"","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"","name":"boralquarry_whiteside","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":821491,"date":"2020-04-15 23:53:15","modified":"2020-04-16 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style=\"text-align: center\"><em>York Town, Tasmania, Australia &#8211; depicting the fine details of a hilly landscape with lidar derived 1-meter data in comparison to WorldDEM4Ortho 24 meters<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":821561,"id":821561,"title":"York Town, Australia","filename":"YorkTown_Aus_36k.gif","filesize":363563,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/04\/YorkTown_Aus_36k.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/high-resolution-data-updates-to-living-atlas-world-elevation-layers-april-2020\/yorktown_aus_36k","alt":"","author":"4501","description":"","caption":"","name":"yorktown_aus_36k","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":821491,"date":"2020-04-15 23:53:42","modified":"2020-04-16 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data updates will be rolled out to the other world elevation derivative products \u2013\u00a0Elevation 3D (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=7029fb60158543ad845c7e1527af11e4\">Terrain3D<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=0c69ba5a5d254118841d43f03aa3e97d\">TopoBathy3D<\/a>) and\u00a0Hillshade (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=f47a5a35be8c41f7890c1763f65a6d9f\">World Hillshade<\/a> and World Hillshade Dark)\u00a0by the next quarter.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the various data sources available in World Elevation services, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=3af669838f594b378f90c10f98e46a7f\">Elevation coverage map<\/a>. You can help to improve these services by contributing high-resolution elevation data to <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/participate\/\">Living Atlas of the World<\/a>. To participate and learn more, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/Cascade\/index.html?appid=f5818ab82666401b8e4a06632e3f51fb\">Esri Community Maps for Elevation<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/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. Rajinder has developed a multi-directional hillshade (esriurl.com\/NextGenHillshade) algorithm to improve terrain visualization in Esri basemaps. He has also developed a fusion technique (esriurl.com\/NAGIfusion) which maintains details and colors when integrating colored rasters with hillshades. Rajinder holds a Master of Science degree in Geoinformatics and a Bachelor of Science degree in Urban &amp; Regional Planning.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RNagi_Profile.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":120371,"post_author":"4501","post_date":"2014-07-11 16:30:42","post_date_gmt":"2014-07-11 16:30:42","post_content":"","post_title":"Introducing Esri\u2019s World Elevation Services","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"introducing-esris-world-elevation-services","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2014-07-11 16:30:42","post_modified_gmt":"2014-07-11 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