ArcNews Esri | Summer 2017 | Vol. 39, No. 3 Briefly Visualize the Changing Planet Noted with New Landsat Explorer Web App Esri Developer Tools Now The new Landsat Explorer web app from Esri enables Services (AWS) and its Landsat on AWS dataset, Explorer app is a simple way to interact with this in IBM’s Bluemix users to wield Landsat imagery to explore geology, which hosts Landsat 8 scenes (from 2013 to pres- dataset, the Landsat image service can also be used In an expansion of Esri’s vegetation, agriculture, and cities anywhere in the ent) for free. Esri’s Landsat image service com- directly in a wide range of other Esri apps and soft- three-decade partnership world. The app, driven by publicly accessible image bines this massive Landsat 8 collection with the ware, including ArcGIS Pro. with IBM, Esri developer services, offers a way to better visualize the planet Landsat Global Land Survey (GLS) datasets from Beyond enabling users to instantly view half tools, geoservices, and and understand how the earth has changed over time. 1975, 1990, 2000, 2005, and 2010. The result is four a million Landsat images using different band data are now available in Using the app is simple: Open it in a web brows- decades of global coverage. And while the Landsat continued on page 8 Bluemix, the IBM cloud er, search for a location, and apply analysis tools on environment. With access the fly to get immediate, dynamic results. With no to the ArcGIS platform in IBM’s cloud infrastructure, download required, Landsat Explorer users get in- as well as in other cloud stant, interactive access to an extensive collection environments supported by of multispectral, multitemporal Landsat imagery. Esri, developers can benefit Landsat satellites have been collecting informa- from a new level of content, tion about the earth’s surface for almost 45 years. functionality, and scalability. Each Landsat image contains multiple bands of spectral data gathered at different wavelengths. New Image Platform Bundles More than just offering pictures of the planet, Esri introduced four new Landsat’s different bands can be combined and image platform bundles analyzed to learn about what is happening on the in ArcGIS 10.5 that enable ground, beyond what the eye can see. users to process imagery Landsat Explorer is powered by Esri’s Landsat in a fraction of the time image service, which includes more than 500,000 it takes most desktop or A false color band combination, where vegetation appears in red, delineates the Exumas Islands in Landsat scenes with over 500 new scenes added the Bahamas. With the Scatter Plot tool, users can select two bands to plot on a graph, with the more enterprise image processing daily. This is made possible in part by Amazon Web frequent occurrences appearing on this graph in red. technologies. Learn more about the Image Analysis, Image Management, Image Analytics, and Ortho Mapping bundles at arcgisimageplatform.com. Esri Adds Detailed Global Elevation Data Esri No. 11 on Forbes’ Best Midsize Employers List to ArcGIS Online Forbes magazine ranked Esri as number 11 on its list Acquisition of Airbus’ WorldDEM4Ortho Means Esri Provides of America's best midsize Most Accurate Global Satellite-Based Elevation Data Available employers. This is the second consecutive year in which Forbes has honored Esri, As the newest addition to Esri’s world elevation for orthorectification data on a global scale. The “The addition of this remarkable new dataset in a company the magazine layers, WorldDEM4Ortho is part of the grow- Airbus data will be included in Esri’s existing eleva- Esri’s world elevation map will greatly enhance re- recognizes for being both ing Living Atlas of the World, available in ArcGIS tion layers, which automatically select the best data gional, national, continental, and even global earth a great place to work and a Online. This detailed elevation data adds to the source based on scale from familiar datasets like the science,” Esri president Jack Dangermond observed. strong business partner. more than 5,000 maps and layers now available to Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 “Our collaboration with Esri will provide mil- National Geographic Includes over 4 million ArcGIS users worldwide. Through (GMTED2010), the General Bathymetric Chart of lions of GIS users around the world with access Dangermond on Board multiple elevation layers that are published by the Oceans (GEBCO), the Shuttle Radar Topography to our WorldDEM4Ortho within their Web GIS The National Geographic Esri, this data will not only be available for end- Mission (SRTM), the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic environment,” said François Lombard, head of the Society elected Esri user applications but also for developers who Database (NED), and community lidar. intelligence division at Airbus Defence and Space. president Jack Dangermond wish to create specific apps that are fueled with Users can apply these elevation layers broadly, “Enabling end users to easily access this layer with- to its board of trustees. elevation information. including for elevation analytics such as slope, as- in ArcGIS will empower them to not only improve Read on page 3 about how National Geographic is WorldDEM4Ortho is based on the global pect, and visibility studies. The data will also be their existing applications but also create new ramping up its efforts to get WorldDEM dataset from Airbus and features verti- used extensively in improving cartographic base- business opportunities.” the next generation excited cal accuracy of 4 meters in a 24-meter-by-24-meter maps with beautiful multidirectional hill shading, Learn more about this new elevation data addi- about geography. raster. Covering the earth’s entire land surface, this el- as well as to advance 3D views inside ArcGIS Pro tion and much more by visiting the Esri Living Atlas evation model is the most homogenous and accurate and the ArcGIS scene viewer. of the World booth at the 2017 Esri User Conference. 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It was an elective, something different and seemingly un- related to my journalism major. The course gave me a perspective At a BioBlitz, scientists, families, students, teachers, and other I never had before: an appreciation for a culture and geography community members work together to get an overall count of the plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms that live in a place.