New content in ArcGIS Living Atlas for ArcGIS Online users

[BernSzukalski]

ArcGIS Living Atlas continually evolves, with regular updates and new content releases happening as they become available. Recent highlights include the following: 

GDP by Industry. One of the newest layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is Bureau of Economic Analysis – Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 2019. This layer contains 2019 GDP estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for the nation, regions, states, and counties. This ready-to-use layer can provide great context when mapping economic and business topics. Like most of layers created from federal datasets, this layer is free to use and does not consume credits. For more information, see County-level Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by industry now available.

New precipitation content.  Living Atlas now includes two new precipitation datasets: The Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) and WorldClim. The Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) layer provides global precipitation estimated from NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellites. The WorldClim Precipitation layer shows the expected inter-annual precipitation at any given place. For more information, see Precipitation layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.

Living Atlas Wildfires live feed updates.  The wildfire live feed hosted in Living Atlas leverages the Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) location database along with the polygon perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).  View the live feed here. The ArcGIS Living Atlas and Esri Disaster Response teams have recently updated the layer with additional incident age fields as well as improvements to the cartography. See 2021 Wildfire life feeds update for more information.

FCC Form 477 content.  In order to help local, regional and national stakeholders bridge the digital divide, Esri has published the FCC Form 477 broadband availability and provider data to the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. This easy to access data will help assess both the availability and competitiveness of service, identify locations limited by infrastructure and to ultimately improve the national broadband map and help provide access to all. View layers or for more information, see Broadband availability and adoption.

U.S. Vessel Traffic app.  The U.S. Vessel Traffic application is a web-based visualization and data-access utility that can be used to explore U.S. maritime activity, look for patterns, and download manageable subsets of this massive data set. Vessel traffic data are an invaluable resource made available to our community by the US Coast Guard, NOAA and BOEM through Marine Cadastre. This information can help marine spatial planners better understand users of ocean space and identify potential space-use conflicts.

Basemaps. Esri basemaps are updated regularly with data from commercial, open, and community sources. All vector basemaps have been updated using data from HERE, SafeGraph Places, and content contributed through the Community Maps Program. OSM Daylight is also iterating in beta, along with OSM feature layers, with full releases forthcoming.

Imagery. Important changes are underway, with publication and testing in progress. Over time, through June 2021, new Landsat and Sentinel image services will be introduced in the Living Atlas and existing services will be retired. These new services deliver several data product improvements that harness recent advancements in data processing, algorithm development, and data access and distribution capabilities.

World Elevation. Recent updates to Terrain and TopoBathy have added high-resolution elevation data sets for various countries, supporting visualization and analysis.

Analysis tools. Ready-to-use deep learning models continue to be added to ArcGIS Living Atlas. These models have been trained on data from a variety of geographies, so you no longer have to invest time and energy into manually extracting features or training your own deep learning model. As new imagery comes in, you can readily extract features at the click of a button and produce layers for mapping, visualization and analysis.

For additional details and to learn more about other newly added or updated content, see ArcGIS Living Atlas News (April 2021), ArcGIS Living Atlas articles, ArcGIS Living Atlas Esri Community blog, or contact Bern Szukalski at bszukalski@esri.com.