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Land cover describes the surface of the earth. This time-enabled service of the National Land Cover Database groups land cover into 20 classes. Classes include vegetation type, development density, and agricultural use. Areas of water, ice and snow and barren lands are also identified. Urban expansion near Houston, 2001-2019This time series now includes 2019 data and has been updated to facilitate comparison over time. For more information, see USA NLCD Land Cover: Newly revised and updated by @Michael_Dangermond_Content  ... View more

The USA Storm Reports live feeds have been updated to include new severe weather reports, no including a total of 48 event types. Fifteen of these storm types have new, hand-drawn unique symbols that are colorblind safe and work on both light and dark basemaps. For more information, see the latest blog article from @danpisu - USA Storm Reports live feed: Now even stormier! ... View more

A variety of ready-to-use, regularly updated, basemaps are found in Living Atlas. But if you want to create something unique as your organization or business brand, or if you simply want to modify a basemap to highlight a certain style or content, @AndrewSkinner details the techniques and tools you can use to create your own unique "brand." For more information, see Branding a basemap.   ... View more

The latest edition of the ArcGIS Living Atlas News (September 2021)  has just been published.  The Living Atlas News is the best way to stay current with new and updated content. This latest edition covers new and improved apps, basemap and elevation updates, and lots of new content for environment, policy maps, and more. And don't forget about previous Living Atlas News issues - it's the best way to stay on top of the of authoritative, meaningful content published and curated by the Living Atlas team and GIS community. ... View more

Wayback imagery is a digital archive of the World Imagery basemap with more than 120 different versions of imagery captured over the last 6+ years. World Imagery Wayback app lets you browse for changes in your area of interest and lets you make a map with versions of interest. Animate mode is a newly added capability that makes it easy to view selected imagery using playback animation, which can also be dowloaded as an animated GIF. When in animate mode, you can click the share button to save the animation, selected imagery, and geographic location with others. For example: Animate change in Las Vegas, Nevada Animate change in Abu Dhabe, United Arab Emirates For more information, see Playback your Wayback by @RobertWaterman    ... View more

The latest "aware" app from Living Atlas has just been released: Drought Aware. Leveraging data and information made available to the GIS community from NOAA, US Dept. of Agriculture, and the US Census Bureau, Drought Aware replaces the former Drought Tracker. For more information, see Track U.S. drought conditions using Drought Aware. See other "aware" apps and more from Living Atlas at: https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/apps/ ... View more

Now available in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, The VIIRS Nighttime Lights Monthly Cloud-Free Composite offers additional opportunity for monitoring human activities at both a regional and global scale. This data is useful for visualizing, measuring, monitoring, and analyzing human activity.  For more information, see Earth by Night by @RobertWaterman  ... View more

New blog article by Esri Disaster Response Program (DRP) lead @Anonymous User explains how you can apply filters to the the Living Atlas wildfire map to focus on specific fires. See Apply Filters During Wildfire Season. ... View more

Block level state tabulations of population were released by the Census Bureau on August 12, 2021. This data is now available in Living Atlas for the entire country, for individual states, and District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Use these Living Atlas layers to create your own thematic maps using the over 300 attributes included. In addition, a set of ready-to-use thematic maps of some of the more popular attributes are also available in Living Atlas. Use these layers and maps to try out your mapping ideas quickly and build dashboards and story maps to share with others. For more information, see Census redistricting data and maps available in ArcGIS Living Atlas. ... View more

A new set of resources is now available that describe global shoreline characteristics.  Ecological Coastal Units (ECUs) were developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in partnership with Esri and the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON). The data allows for the visualization and query of any stretch of coastline on Earth, except for Antarctica. For more information, see Ecological Coastal Units (ECUs) Available by @KeithVanGraafeiland. ... View more

From climate stripes to space-time pattern mining, @DanPisut covers various content and ways you can map climate information via ArcGIS Living Atlas. For more information, see Mapping Drought Trends in the U.S. ... View more

Recordings of all ArcGIS Living Atlas sessions (and any other session for that matter) are now available. To view the sessions, visit the UC2021 website and sign in with your ArcGIS Account, then click Sessions to begin searching for topics of interest. ArcGIS Living Atlas sessions were categorized in two different ways. Below is the complete list of all Living Atlas sessions for easy viewing and sharing. Be sure to sign in first to open the links below.   Living Atlas: An Introduction ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is the foremost collection of geographic information from around the globe. It includes curated and authoritative maps, apps, and layers from Esri and the global GIS user community, and delivers related capabilities, such as geocoding, routing, and data enrichment. Living Atlas supports your work across the entire ArcGIS System. This session will provide an overview of Living Atlas content that is available to you now, with an emphasis on recent additions and updates, and will demonstrate how ArcGIS users can fully leverage it in their work.   Living Atlas: Policy Mapping GIS practitioners can provide more than maps of data: they can provide policy maps that illuminate a need, provide a human context to existing and proposed infrastructure, generate understanding of topics like equity and access, and foster discussion. Join this session to see the difference between a map of data, and a policy map. Demos show how to find and use any of the 1000’s of policy maps available in ArcGIS Living Atlas, and how modify a policy map focus on your community using data from Census, FEMA, NASA and others.   Living Atlas: Livefeeds Maps and Workflows for Disaster Response In this session, you will learn about the collection of viral-ready automatic updated maps and dashboards, supporting natural hazards from NOAA weather watches and warnings to COVID case mapping with Johns Hopkins University. We will share best practices for updating, publishing, consuming maps ready to scale and share some tips and tricks on how best to utilize Living Atlas Livefeeds in your apps. At the end of the session, we will share a collection of resources and examples you can use to build viral services.   Living Atlas: Imagery and Elevation Learn about the basics of imagery and elevation content available in the Living Atlas. You will learn how to use imagery in visualization and analysis. We will focus on updates to the imagery basemap and newly upgraded multispectral/multitemporal imagery from Sentinal-2 and LandSat8. We will then share what’s new in elevation, which now includes dozens of high resolution terrain sources that you can use in ArcGIS and Pro to enhance your analysis work.   Living Atlas: Community Maps Program Would you like Esri Basemaps to include your high-quality data? Join our session to learn about the Community Maps Program, its benefits, and how your data can dramatically improve Living Atlas Basemaps, Imagery, Elevation, and the World Geocoding. We will cover topics including an overview of the Community Maps Program, benefits of being a data contributor, how to contribute, and a glimpse onto our Basemap creation workflows. If you are already a contributor to our program, we will share a few new tips and techniques to simplify contributions.   Living Atlas: Demographics for Visualization and Analysis The Living Atlas of the World provides access to 25,000+ demographic variables for 175 countries, that can be accessed anywhere within the ArcGIS system including apps, dashboards, infographics, and models. In this session we will learn about accessing, visualizing, and analyzing open, free, and premium demographic content; what’s available across the globe; geoenriching your maps, apps, and user experiences with decision-centric content; and using demographics in advance analytics, AI/ML, and big data.   Living Atlas: Environmental Content, Mapping, and Analysis Workflows Within Living Atlas, the Environment section provides a wealth of resources for mapping, analyzing and understanding our planet. This session will cover how to easily make beautiful, informative maps using blend modes along with Arcade for custom symbology. Then we’ll dive into dive into useful workflows in ArcGIS Pro and Notebooks to quickly find patterns over space and time. Lastly, we’ll show examples of how organizations are sharing their information with applications and Dashboards.   Living Atlas: Esri Basemaps and OpenStreet Map ArcGIS provides access to some of the world’s best map data through Esri Basemap and OpenStreetMap offerings. Esri publishes a variety of basemaps rich in cartographic design and built with data from leading providers. These basemaps enable dynamic cartography, international localization, and the flexibility to create your own styles. In this session, you will learn about the latest updates and options to customize the map colors, patterns, and labels to meet your unique needs. In addition, you will learn about the latest OpenStreetMap offerings, including the new OSM Daylight map featuring data from the ArcGIS community and new hosted feature layers of OSM data that is updated every minute with the latest edits.   ArcGIS: Map Wizardry Sit back, and enjoy this inspiring cartographic ride! In this session we share some truly mesmerizing maps to demonstrate the cartographic power and flexibility of the ArcGIS platform. We go beyond the defaults, and bend ArcGIS to our every cartographic whim to bring data to life using innovative and imaginative techniques. We’ll show maps you maybe haven’t even considered let alone thought possible and share ideas and workflows that you can use creatively in your own work. We’ll inspire you to create compelling maps, and make them sing and dance in new and exciting ways.   Enabling Conservation Planning with GIS: A Vision for 30 by 30 Preserving 30 percent of the planet by the year 2030, or 30 by 30 is a campaign which has been gaining traction across the globe, with more than 50 countries having signed on. Within the United States, a Biden administration executive order aims to establish similar objectives and States like California are leading the charge with individual commitments. Join us in this session to learn how GIS is being used to support conservation efforts like 30 by 30 and beyond.   Living Atlas: US Demographics and Census 2020 Learn what’s new in Esri’s 2021 demographic data updates for the U.S. and the 2020 Census data release. In this session, you’ll learn what types of data Esri offers for the US, how you can access it and incorporate it into your analyses, and where you can find resources to frequently asked questions.   ... View more