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ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is the foremost collection of geographic information from around the globe. It includes maps, apps, and data layers to support your work.

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Global Fishing Watch is now in ArcGIS Living Atlas

Esri is excited to announce the addition of global fishing intensity layers to ArcGIS Living Atlas. 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.

Latest FCC Broadband Data Collection now available

Broadband Data Collection (BDC) is now available within ArcGIS Living Atlas. The 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).

Explore the Global Wind Atlas in Living Atlas

Esri is happy to announce the addition of the Global Wind Atlas to ArcGIS Living Atlas. These three new multidimensional imagery layers are useful for a variety of wind energy policy and planning applications. Check out the blog and StoryMap to see how you can use them with the Suitability Modeler to assess potential wind farm locations.

Lidar-derived updates to Living Atlas Elevation Layers

Living Atlas Elevation layers get updated quarterly with high resolution elevation data from federal agencies, open sources, and community maps program. In December 2024 release, the layers were updated with high-res DTM's from Canada, Austria and United States.

Latest (2019-2023) American Community Survey (ACS) data now available in Living Atlas

The 2019-2023 American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates are now available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas. These ready-to-use layers empower people to begin to explore, map, and analyze the multi-scale data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Having free access to these layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas significantly reduces the time GIS users spend preparing data.

Explore the impacts of drought with the updated Drought Aware App

The Drought Aware App provide insights on drought affected areas in the U.S., tracking the changing intensities of drought over time. The app integrates data layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World to tabulate the population experiencing the effects of droughts, and the potential impacts to crop sales, agricultural labor, and streamflow.

New Environment Basemap 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, the newest ArcGIS Living Atlas basemap, 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.

iNaturalist observations in Living Atlas

Millions of scientists and naturalists worldwide utilize the iNaturalist network to share detailed information about the biodiversity and species around them. This substantial collection of crowdsourced observations is now freely available in Beta within ArcGIS Living Atlas for use within your GIS workflows.

Living Atlas Live Feeds Status

ArcGIS Living Atlas Live Feeds are a collection of ready-to-use services that help enhance situational awareness in managing natural disasters. To help communicate service status to our users, Esri has released the Live Feeds Status page. This page includes a summarized view of these services with current status and usage trends, an RSS link to subscribe to status change notifications, and more.

Global land cover updates

Esri’s annual Sentinel-2 10m Land Use/Land Cover Time Series in ArcGIS Living Atlas has been updated with new data from 2023, expanding the time series to include global coverage from 2017 to 2023. The Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer app in Living Atlas has also been updated with several new features.

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