Esri Releases Sentinel-2 Image Services, Enhancements to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
Having difficulty finding new inspiration for portraying your organization’s data in intriguing and eye-catching fashion? Browsing the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World might just be the cure for your case of cartographer’s block. And now, just days after its announcement, the release of Sentinel-2 offers a plethora of new additions to the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, providing a better understanding of the Earth as we know it.
Esri announced the release of Sentinel-2 Image Services on May 29, 2018, which offers all Esri users in the community a wider range of visual and analytical perspectives. This release is especially helpful for those in industries like crop management, energy exploration, planning and mitigation of natural disasters, amongst others. As part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, Sentinel-2 is also powered by the ArcGIS Image Server, offering daily imagery updates that go back to over one year ago. With the availability of this data, image analysis can be applied to create image indices that reflect changes to the Earth, including soil moisture and vegetation health, while also quantifying these changes over time.
Using Esri’s Sentinel-2 Image Services, we can begin to employ better practices surrounding the understanding of catastrophic events much like the recent volcanic activity is Hawaii. Now, with the ability of using imagery of the volcano over time and pairing it with various spatial data elements like digital elevation models (DEM), members of natural disaster mitigation agencies and local authorities are better equipped to correctly predict directions of lava flows and guide those in its path to safety at a faster rate than ever before.
As the foremost collection of geographic information from around the spatial globe, the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is a breathing ground for collaboration – a place where cartographers and data analysts share their maps, apps, and data layers amongst the Esri user community. The beauty of this collaboration not only offers inspiration for portraying data, but it also promotes new ways of visualizing data while helping others analyze and solve problems from unforeseen angles. As a member of the Esri user community, you can take and share visualizations from existing maps, apps, and data layers in various capacities, while still leaving room for your own sense of creativity by adding your own layers and adjusting new layers to fit your story.
As the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World continues to grow and evolve with releases like Sentinel-2, the content strengthens and diversifies exponentially across the GIS community as a whole, featuring new data that surrounds weather patterns, traffic tendencies, social and demographic behaviors, and even urban systems that affect everyday life across the spatial globe.
Take a browse through the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World on your own by following this link! Don’t have an ArcGIS Online or Enterprise account yet? Contact one of our experts at support@geomarvel.com to learn more on how you can become a member of the Esri community today!
