ArcGIS Living Atlas Blog

The new ArcGIS Living Atlas "evaluate and nominate" app was recently released. This app is what you use to perform an evaluation on your items when you want to contribute to ArcGIS Living Atlas (always a great idea).

It can also be used to review any of your content for suggestions on improvements to your item description even if you don't end up contributing to Living Atlas.

For more information, see Living Atlas evaluate and nominate app released by @JimHerries 

Intended for both educators and students, this new tutorial is of benefit to anyone that wants to get the most out of Sentinel-2 Explorer, one of the newest ArcGIS Living Atlas apps.

This tutorial joins others covering satellite imagery-focused explorers:

Learn to explore Landsat imagery using Landsat Explorer

Learn to explorer Sentinel-1 imagery using Sentinel-1 Explorer

Sentinel-2 is a European mission that utilizes wide-swath, high-resolution, multi-spectral imaging. Dedicated to Europe’s Copernicus programme, the mission supports operational applications primarily for land services, including the monitoring of vegetation, soil and water cover, as well as the observation of inland waterways and coastal areas. 

 For more information, see Learn to explore Sentinel-2 imagery using Sentinel-2 Explorer.

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We are happy to announce the availability of Sentinel-2 Explorer. Sentinel-2 Explorer joins a collection of imagery exploration apps available in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Simple, Accessible, and Insightful, these apps support our mission to help democratize remote sensing data and technology and engage a broader user community.

With its multispectral sensor and wide swath coverage, the Sentinel-2 mission not only offers continuity with the Landsat missions, it also expands upon them by offering greater spatial resolution and unique spectral capabilities for monitoring agriculture and vegetation around the world. The app allows you to explore, swipe, animate, and analyze different imagery from Sentinel-2.

Read the full article by @RobertWaterman here to learn more about the capabilities of this new application.

The Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) dataset from the U.S. Census Bureau reports the population that is both 18 years or older and a U.S. Citizen. This year's annual update is now available. All CVAP content within Living Atlas now contains and displays the latest vintage: 2019-2023.

To find all CVAP content within Living Atlas, visit this link. There are layers, maps, and ready-to-use applications to help you explore and navigate the data within your workflows. To read the full blog by @DianaLavery1, click here. 

Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.

Esri's Data Development team utilized Esri Updated Demographics to visualize where couples who have tied the knot are located across the United States.

We are happy to inform our user community that ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World not only provides a collection pretrained deep learning models, but also provides World Imagery as a high-resolution imagery source for automated feature extraction.

Acquiring high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery may not be feasible for some organizations. Visually inspecting or hand digitizing features from imagery can be time consuming, tedious, and expensive. AI and deep learning can help save time and money by automating manual processes, but not everyone has the expertise or resources to train a deep learning model. If you are experiencing any of these limitations, we just might have a solution for you.

This learning tutorial will walk you through a step-by-step workflow using a pretrained deep learning model from Living Atlas to detect building footprints from the World Imagery basemap in ArcGIS Pro. While this tutorial focuses specifically on building footprint extraction, you will find a number of pretrained deep learning models in Living Atlas that you can leverage to extract a variety of information.

Find the full tutorial by @RobertWaterman here.

Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.

Esri’s NAIP Image Service has now been updated to include the NAIP 2023 imagery. With this update, our NAIP timeseries now includes NAIP annual coverage from 2010 through 2023.

The 2023 coverage contains multispectral imagery at 0.3 to 0.6 meter resolution for approximately half of the Continental United States. You can reference the NAIP Coverage map to see all of the states included in the 2023 coverage, as well as the historical data accessible through the NAIP timeseries. Use the contents pane to explore years, or click on a state to view data availability information in a pop-up.

You can discover and access NAIP imagery through ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.

Check out the content and full blog by @RobertWaterman here.

Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is conducted yearly by the U.S. Census Bureau and provides data on a variety of topics including age, race, income, education, employment, and housing characteristics. The ArcGIS Living Atlas Policy Mapping team updates this collection of free layers that contain the latest 5-year estimates of ACS data. In addition to the layers, there are over 200 maps and apps that have been created highlighting the current-year data.

With the ever growing collection of maps being made with the ACS data, the Living Atlas team has used ArcGIS Instant Apps Atlas to provide users with a more interactive and engaging way to discover content. 

 For more information, see Introducing the American Community Survey (ACS) Atlas Collection.

Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.

One of the many benefits of using Esri Vector Basemaps is the ability to make custom changes with our ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor (VTSE). Changes can be as simple as switching road or water colors, or hiding entire layers of features. Changes can also include customizing specific map labels. This quick tutorial by Andrew Green steps you through how to create a custom label for an area of interest using some basic JSON edits. 

Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.