ArcGIS Living Atlas Blog

A better understanding of WUI areas can help identify vulnerability of structures and people to wildfire, understand habitat loss and fragmentation, and help minimize the spread of zoonotic diseases. The new Global Wildland-Urban Interface layer is the first of its kind in Living Atlas to document the WUI on a global scale and will serve as a companion to the other wildfire related content in Living Atlas. It is one more tool in your toolbox to help prepare for and assess the potential risks from wildfires.

Firefighting professionals, emergency services organizations, and regional and local land developers will all find unique ways to incorporate this new data service into their daily workflows.

For more information, see How wild is the land? by @MarkGilbert and @MichaelDangermond 

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The Group on Earth Observations Global Water Sustainability (GEOGLOWS) initiative has recently upgraded its global streamflow model to version two. The GEOGLOWS 10-Day forecast layer is now available in Living Atlas. GEOGLOWS is a comprehensive streamflow model dataset, its forecast provides data in three-hour intervals for the next 10 days. 

 For more information, see Global streamflow forecast from GEOGLOWS available in Living Atlas.

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ArcGIS Living Atlas provides foundational elevation layers that all ArcGIS users consume in their maps, scenes, and applications. We are excited to share that the Terrain 3D, TopoBathy 3D, World Hillshade and World Hillshade (Dark) layers are now enhanced with bare earth elevation data from Maxar’s Precision3D (P3D) for parts of the globe.

The Precision3D Digital Terrain Models (DTM’s) are 50 cm resolution that are derived from Maxar’s extensive archive of high-resolution satellite imagery using stereo photogrammetry techniques where vegetation and structures were removed from data using automated methods.

For more information, see Maxar's Precision3D available in Esri's World Elevation 3D and Hillshade Layers by @RajinderNagi.

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While Living Atlas layers often change, the Living Atlas layers you find in Enterprise are tied to a particular ArcGIS Enterprise version.

Starting at ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3, administrators will have the ability to refresh the Living Atlas content in their organization when Esri provides updated Living Atlas items. As soon as a new Living Atlas package is made available, organization administrators can initiate a Living Atlas content update. This will allow organization members access to a fresh set of Living Atlas content outside of doing an upgrade of your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.

For more information, see Living Atlas in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3: A new way to get fresh content.

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The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED is the highest quality and most widely used global, real-time data and analysis source on political violence and demonstrations around the world. Practitioners, researchers, journalists, risk analysts, corporate security managers, and governments depend on ACLED for the latest reliable information on current disorder patterns.

An aggregated ACLED data file is now available through ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. There are three items to explore: a feature layer, a group layer of key indicators, and a web map with time configuration.

For more information, see Armed conflict data now available in ArcGIS Living Atlas by @BonnieStayer.

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Eighteen hosted feature layer items, designed to support local climate resilience planning, are now available in Living Atlas. These Climate Resilience Index layers combine climate risk exposure variables with data like land cover type and demographics to create a composite index. You can use the indices to help plan and deploy risk mitigations at the census tract level and can quickly incorporate the ready-to-use feature layer items into your planning and mitigation workflows. Customize the style and cartography to suit your needs.

 For more information, see Tools for building community climate resilience by Mark Gilbert.

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ArcGIS Living Atlas now contains an updated collection of layer views of the most requested commodities from the latest 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture release. Conducted every five years, the census provides a richly detailed, U.S. county-level look at agricultural production, labor, equipment, and spending.

While the full census compiles thousands of agricultural attributes, the 2022 Living Atlas collection contains 23 layer views of the most requested commodities, updating the previous 2017 Census of Agriculture release with 8 new collections.

For more information, see Dig into the 2022 U.S. Census of Agriculture by @CraigMcCabe .

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Finding the data you need for your specific project isn’t always an easy task. Luckily, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is a resource included within ArcGIS to help address this need for easily accessible, quality spatial content. But Living Atlas is far more than just data. It spans the possibilities of web GIS by offering spatial content in useful ways across ArcGIS.

Do you have questions about how to access, use, or contribute content to Living Atlas? Your Living Atlas questions answered by @LisaBerry provides answers to frequently asked questions.

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Esri Community Maps contributors continue to enrich the Living Atlas of the World with authoritative large-scale map layers. This first quarter includes over 300 new and updated communities, spanning 4 continents.

For more information, see Basemap releases include over 300 new and updated communities.

There are a variety of ways to share your organization’s authoritative map data. Interested in knowing more about Esri’s Community Maps? Click on the image below, or email us at communitymaps@esri.com.

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ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides foundation elevation layers and tools to support analysis and visualization across the ArcGIS system. These layers get updated quarterly with high resolution elevation data from federal agencies, open sources, and community maps program. World elevation layers have been updated with many high-resolution elevation datasets.

 For more information on these updates, see this blog article by @RajinderNagi  High resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation layers and tools.

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