Ocean Science
Exploring, mapping, visualizing, analyzing, and protecting Earth's last frontier
Esri Ocean Science Capabilities
Originally recorded as part of a 2020 meeting with the National Geographic's Pristine Seas program, these nine videos provide an excellent showcase of Esri's ArcGIS software for ocean science, ocean conservation, and science communication.
Additionally, access the 2020 Esri Ocean, Weather, and Climate GIS Forum demos for the latest ocean, weather, and climate information.
Esri Oceans Hub
Esri's new hub of ocean resources includes apps for ocean analytics, informative blog posts, story maps, and tutorials, plus information about the annual Esri Ocean, Weather, and Climate Forum for collaborating across ocean subdisciplines.
Ecological Marine Units — A 3D analytic basemap of the ocean
Ecological marine units (EMU) are 3D renderings of observations about ocean characteristics. A foundation for a standardized and practical global ecosystems classification and map for the ocean, EMU’s are being used in over 15 projects worldwide. The data is free and open within ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.
A global 3D basemap of the ocean
EMU’s greatly benefit ocean research, design of marine protected areas (MPA’s), and classroom instruction.
Free new EMU learning module
Learn how to work with EMUs as 3D voxel layers and analytical fence diagrams.
One Ocean
See how to load global EMU data as points, and render them in the One Ocean Spilhaus projected coordinate system.
Explore the Maldives
See an Indian Ocean subset of the EMU’s in a custom web app using the Javascript API.
Introducing Ecological Coastal Units
Explore a new resource for coastal managers and researchers that allows for standardized characterizations and comparisons of coastal settings and processes. Every one kilometer stretch of coastline on Earth can be queried for 11 variables characterizing the waterside, landside, and coastline properties. This resource is brought to you by Esri, the USGS, and a team of international experts.
An ocean of story maps
With the storytelling tools in ArcGIS, the ocean community is telling powerful stories about ocean science, conservation, exploration, and fieldwork. Find motivation for your story with the story maps in this unique collection of outstanding science communication examples that inform, educate, and inspire scientists, conservationists, decision-makers, and the public.
Advanced ocean basemaps
The Ocean Basemap includes a vector tile layer for bathymetry, surface and subsurface feature names, and derived depths, designed for use by ocean GIS specialists or as a reference map by anyone interested in ocean data. New content is available across all styles of vector tile layers, enabling customization of both layer content and display appearance.
UNH/CCOM-JHC Data Portal
The University of New Hampshire’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (UNH/CCOM) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Joint Hydrographic Center (JHC) have provided web-accessible maps since 2012. This portal includes a wide variety of ocean maps and applications, offered in collaboration with the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) and Seabed 2030.
Benthic Terrain Modeler
The Benthic Terrain Modeler is a Python-3-based set of geoprocessing tools to analyze benthic terrain for the purposes of classifying surficial seafloor characteristics. It now implements block-based processing for large raster calculations using the NumPy and SciPy scientific libraries.
Our collaborators in ocean science
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