Latest Contributions by LisaBerry

As climate change continues to worsen, rising temperatures lead to increased heat stress. This poses a risk to human health and may have significant social and economic consequences. A crucial metric to evaluate heat stress and its impact on human health is the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT). This comprehensive heat stress metric considers not just temperature, but also humidity, wind, cloud cover, and solar radiation, providing a more accurate representation of the heat stress that individuals experience. To effectively evaluate the risks and impacts of heat stress, having accurate and reliable projections is essential. However, projecting WBGT far into the future presents challenges. Fortunately, researchers at Purdue University have developed a new methodology that uses various climate models and scenarios to calculate WBGT projections. The research team has contributed their WBGT projections dataset to the Living Atlas, where it is now available to all! For the full blog and detailed information about Wet Bulb Temperatures, visit this blog by @rantwerpen. ... View more

Economic Mobility refers to the ability of individuals or families to improve their economic states over time. It often reflects how easily someone can move up (or down) the economic ladder and is often influenced by a range of factors. A study conducted by Opportunity Insights, a research team at Harvard University, and in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau, laid out findings that highlights the changes in economic opportunity for individuals born between 1978 and 1992 and how community-level changes impacted those trends in mobility. This research can be explored in more depth via the Opportunity Atlas. These layers and maps are now available in ArcGIS Living Atlas for the GIS community to explore and leverage for other mapping efforts. There are four main feature layers that highlight both household and individual income at the county geography level and the commuting zone geography level. These layers include more than 270 attributes each, that cover either household income or individual income earned by an individual measured at age 27, and can be further broken down by race, gender, and parent income percentile group. For more information about these layesr, maps, and apps, visit this blog by @LauraPhoebus. ... View more

Achieving the conservation targets of 30×30 is an ambitious goal, and one that needs to be guided by data and stakeholder input. The Living Atlas is a great place to start that process with contributions from organizations like the U.N. World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Conservation International, and iNaturalist that can inform biodiversity and conservation planning. And now that process is a bit easier. Esri is applying a geographic approach to some key biodiversity and conservation data and information that were contributed to the Living Atlas by the GIS community.  Over 20 of the datasets are now summarized into 55 fields using multiscale, nested H3 hexagons. This StoryMap provides some more detail on them. H3, developed by Uber, is a standard for mapping information, as it provides consistent and repeatable geographic units at multiple scales. Seven hexagons nest into the next largest level, and Esri processed 4 scale levels of summary information on these geographic units. The Global Hexagons for Biodiversity and Conservation group layer provides data at levels 2-5, which range from ~87,000 to 250 sq km. What datasets were used for the summaries? World Database of Protected Areas SBTN Conservation Hotspots Ocean Conservation Priorities Biodiversity Hotspots Biodiversity Intactness IUCN Red List iNaturalist Observations Esri Sentinel-2 Land Use/Land Cover World Seafloor Geomorphology World Terrestrial Ecosystems Land Cover Vulnerability to Change 2050 Tree Canopy Height Irrecoverable Carbon Above and Below Ground Carbon Biomass Terrain – Elevation, Slope, Roughness Global Fishing Watch Global Forest Watch WorldPop Population   For the full blog by @DanPisut and @KeithVanGraafeiland, visit this link. ... View more

Ookla Speedtest for Global Broadband Performance is available within ArcGIS Living Atlas. This ready-to-use layer shows global fixed broadband and mobile (cellular) network performance metrics in zoom level 16 web Mercator tiles (approximately 610.8 meters by 610.8 meters at the equator). Download speed, upload speed, and latency are collected via the Speedtest by Ookla applications for Android and iOS and averaged for each tile. Measurements are filtered to results with GPS-quality location accuracy. At the end of each quarter the data is downloaded from github.com/teamookla/ookla-open-data, processed, and published to ArcGIS Living Atlas by the Esri Telecom Team. To learn more about this dataset and how it can be used within your mapping projects, check out the following blog by @PatrickRyan  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.    ... View more