Latest Contributions by BernSzukalski

For educators, this might be a quick exercise for your students to learn more about Landsat, drought, and Living Atlas content and apps.  Living Atlas includes authoritative content and apps that help you (and your students) learn more about current topics and events. Follow these steps to explore Lake Mead water levels over time using Living Atlas content and Landsat Explorer, one of the Living Atlas apps, all in a minute (or less). See the latest Map in a minute. ... View more

Living Atlas includes authoritative content and apps that help you learn more about current topics and events such as drought. You can explore Lake Mead water levels over time using Living Atlas content and Landsat Explorer, one of the Living Atlas apps, all in a minute (or less). To learn how, see the latest in the Map-in-a-minute series. ... View more

ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World now includes two new layers describing carbon biomass and the vulnerability of the landscape to change in 2050. Learn how these layers can be used as part of an exploratory workflow to help identify areas for conservation. For more information, see Targeting areas for conservation: New biomass and vulnerability layers in Living Atlas. ... View more

Modeled after CovidPulse‘s use of sparkline map symbols, and using the regularly-updated Living Atlas layer of unemployment (sourced from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics monthly numbers), UnemploymentPulse visualizes a moving 14-month window of unemployment data at the state and county level, and shows them alongside national rates for comparison. For more information, see Introducing Unemployment Pulse. ... View more

ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World now includes two new USDA Soil Capability layers, which reveal the practical capability of soils in the United States. For more information and to learn how to use these new layers to analyze suitability for agricultural activities in the U.S., see Analyzing soil capability for the agriculture in the Living Atlas of the World. ... View more

Have you looked at the USA Current Wildfires lately? Activity is really starting to pick-up along the West Coast, putting people and property at risk. Studies of the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) have shown that as development continues to expand out into previous undeveloped areas, more homes are exposed to wildfire. Coupled with climate change and increasing fire season length, annual area burned, and annual area burned with high severity, wildfires are posing a greater threat to communities across the United States. Fire is a natural process in many ecosystems that we will never eliminate, but there are things we can do to reduce the risks to homes and communities. GIS and spatial analysis are a powerful tool to be able to understand and plan for these risks. Fortunately there are a series of 15 new layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World to help map and analyze risk from wildfires in your community.  For more information, see Improving the understanding of community wildfire risk. ... View more

Andy Skinner continues his work on accessible basemaps with his latest blog article A gray accessible basemap. The goal is to improve the legibility of the basemap so that someone with a visual impairment can access the content. In particular, to have the map meet WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standards, and the US Federal ‘Section 508’ equivalent. The maps are single-color, so color-blindness is not an issue. ... View more

With the recent addition of FCC broadband layers to ArcGIS Living Atlas, there are lot of opportunities to understand a wide range of topics related to broadband, equity, accessibility, infrastructure, and more. Some of the crucial layers which can be used to assess broadband need throughout the U.S. are discussed in Tackling the digital divide with ready-to-use-content + policy. ... View more

According to a CNET online article, the FBI on Monday last week identified a hacking group for a cyberattack that took down the main pipeline carrying gas along the East Coast of the U.S. A group called Darkside, who reportedly develops ransomware and sells it to others, was identified as the responsible party. This week's map is by @AnnetteGinocchetti and shows gas availability across Colonial Pipeline's reach. It uses FEMA's Gas Buddy Retail Gas Station Crowdsourced Outages (Public) to show current gas availability status using clusters with predominance for availability. The app was built using Web AppBuilder and is discoverable, along with other Colonial Pipeline maps and apps, on ArcGIS Online. See Map in a minute: Map pipelines using ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Living Atlas to make your own. View the app or the app item details on ArcGIS Online. ... View more

GIS and spatial analysis are a powerful tool to be able to understand and plan for wildfire risks. A newly added series of 15 layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World help you map and analyze risk from wildfires in your community. For more information, see Improving the understanding of wildfire community risk. ... View more

Living Atlas contains a wide range of ready-to-use content which can be used to help address the digital divide. With new and emerging policies, a common question is: “Where can this funding make the biggest impact?” Learn to expand broadband availability by using a data-driven approach to distribute policy funding. For more information, see Tackling the Digital Divide with Ready-to-Use Content + Policy. ... View more

Based on a popular workshop that has evolved over many years, Extend the Reach of Your GIS covers a variety of tips and best practices to help you succeed in implementing your cloud GIS, and also includes links to additional resources such as help documentation, Learn ArcGIS lessons, blog articles, and more. Topics covered include the following: Governance Home page Creating your brand Setting things up for success Tips for tuning your organization Groups Member best practices Authoring maps Feature layers ArcGIS Online analysis Information products—apps and more Keeping your organization moving forward The eBook will be updated regularly and will evolve with each new release of ArcGIS Online. For more information, see the eBook announcement at the ArcGIS Blog, or view the eBook online. ... View more

The European Space Agency’s CCI  Global Land Cover product was recently updated in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World to extend from 1992-2019. A new blog article by @DanPisut details how you can leverage this source to analyze land cover change using ArcGIS Pro, using Indonesia as an example. See Visualizing patterns of land cover change in Indonesia for more information. ... View more

The Community Maps Program enables community contributions of authoritative data to help build the ArcGIS Living Atlas. You can provide feedback, create detailed features, and share data layers and services, contributing to Esri basemaps that anyone can use. If you don’t have a collection of data layers to provide, but still want to contribute, consider adding content through the Community Maps Editor app. Edit parts of the Esri Community Maps basemap to add detailed features for universities, schools, parks, landmarks, and other special areas of interest.  @ShaneMatthews  talks about the advantages of participating in the program in Building community through mapping.  ... View more

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 [email protected]. ... View more