Latest Contributions by LisaBerry

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

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.   ... View more

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. ... View more

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. ... View more

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. ... View more

The June 2024 Broadband Data Collection (BDC) is now available within ArcGIS Living Atlas. This ready-to-use layer shows fixed broadband availability for every Census Block and H3 Resolution-8 hexagonal area in the U.S. and outlying territories. The layer summarizes the June 2024 BDC data showing the number of served, underserved, and unserved Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs) in total and by transmission technology for a given geography. It is a composite of six sublayers – State, County, Tract, Block Group, Block, and H3 Resolution-8 hexagons – each with a related table listing all Internet Service Provider (ISP) offerings by technology and speed tier.  Visit the blog by @PatrickRyan and Steven Aviles to learn more about the layer and associated Provider Comparison App and Provier Footprint Dashboard. The new content is designed to help address the digital divide throughout the US, and can help pinpoint areas where public policy can make an impact.  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

Esri is excited to announce the addition of global fishing intensity layers to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. These new 1-kilometer resolution multidimensional datasets are the product of Global Fishing Watch, an independent, international nonprofit organization whose purpose is to provide a global real-time view of fishing – making human activity at sea publicly accessible. Visit this blog for a quick summary of the new available layers.  Global Fishing Intensity (Year 2020) provides a global summary of vessel activity in the world’s oceans, detected from AIS tracking data, and is represented as total hours per 1km cell for the year 2020. Global Fishing Intensity – Monthly Time Series (Year 2020) provides a more granular look at fishing intensity, with monthly summaries for 2020. For a deeper dive into how the Global Fishing Watch fishing intensity layers were created, and how they can be used for monitoring and protecting the world’s oceans, visit the Global Fishing Watch: Illuminating vessel activity on the open ocean StoryMap.  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

Esri is happy to announce the addition of the Global Wind Atlas to ArcGIS Living Atlas. These exciting new multidimensional imagery layers put wind potential on the map – for anyone to use – and are the result of a partnership between the Department of Wind Energy at the Technical University of Denmark  (DTU Wind Energy) and the World Bank Group, with the objective of “helping policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world.” Read more about the layers and how to access them in this blog. These new layers are useful in myriad applications…too many to cover in a short blog, so please visit the Explore the Global Wind Atlas StoryMap by @CraigMcCabe for more detailed information about how to use and explore the dataset. You can also explore how the color scheme was designed by @EmilyMeriam1 in this insightful blog. 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

The newest 2019-2023 American Community Survey (ACS) estimates are now live within ArcGIS Living Atlas! The collection of over 100 ready-to-use layers covers thousands of ACS values and their associated margins of error. Your new and existing maps will automatically reflect these newest values from Census. For more information about the newest data and layers, visit and share via social media this “how to use” story map, this announcement blog or the ACS Hub FAQ. Also visit the ACS Learn Path to learn more about using these layers.      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

The 2019-2023 American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates will be available within ArcGIS Living Atlas in the coming weeks. These ready-to-use layers empower people to instantly begin to explore, map, and analyze the data. The multi-scale layers have data for state, county, and tract levels. Having free access to these layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas significantly reduces the time GIS users spend on downloading and processing data.  The ArcGIS Living Atlas Policy Mapping team provides the GIS community with a collection of free layers that contain a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). On December 12th, 2024, Census will release its updated five-year estimates (2019-2023). Within days, the Policy Mapping team will update the set of ACS layers already available in Living Atlas with the newest data. Any maps and apps that already use these layers will automatically update to reflect the most recent Census ACS data. 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

The University of Botswana’s sprawling campus has always been a challenge to navigate. Buildings are not arranged according to any order, therefore students, guests and even faculty members of the university often struggle to find the locations of lecture halls and classrooms, labs, and essential services. The struggle to navigate the campus would have continued if it were not for Dr. Pelane-Modutlwe Lillian and a small group of students who decided to build a useful campus basemap that would serve everyone. Dr. Pelane-Modutlwe Lillian recruited a group of third-year students from the Department of Environmental Science in the Faculty of Science. This project was completed through the Living and Learning Communities Academic Mentorship Program. Learn how this community used the Community Maps Editor to help improve the Esri Basemap collection by improving their own campus basemap. Read the blog or the full story. 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

We would like to introduce the new Environment Basemap which is now available across the ArcGIS platform. Most traditional basemaps are human focused, displaying roads, municipal boundaries, and other human-centric/human created features. The Environment Map is Esri’s first ever Environment focused basemap, designed to let the environmental data speak for itself, and more easily expose environmental trends and patterns.  For more information, visit this blog by Emily Meriam. 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