The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) produces Flood Insurance Rate maps and identifies Special Flood Hazard Areas as part of the National Flood Insurance Program's floodplain management. Special Flood Hazard Areas have regulations that include the mandatory purchase of flood insurance for holders of federally regulated mortgages. In addition, this layer can help planners and firms avoid areas of flood risk and also avoid additional cost to carry insurance for certain planned activities. Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Flood Hazard AreasGeographic Extent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereData Coordinate System: USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic (Hawaii), Western Pacific Albers Equal Area Conic (Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa)Cell Sizes: 10 meters (default), 30 meters, and 90 metersUnits: NoneSource Type: ThematicPixel Type: Unsigned integerSource: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)Update Frequency: AnnualPublication Date: May 7, 2025 This layer is derived from the May 7, 2025 version Flood Insurance Rate Map feature class S_FLD_HAZ_AR. The vector data were then flagged with an index of 94 classes, representing a unique combination of values displayed by three renderers. (In three resolutions the three renderers make nine processing templates.) Repair Geometry was run on the set of features, then the features were rasterized using the 94 class index at a resolutions of 10, 30, and 90 meters, using the Polygon to Raster tool and the "MAXIMUM_COMBINED_AREA" option. Not every part of the United States is covered by flood rate maps. This layer compiles all the flood insurance maps available at the time of publication. To make analysis easier, areas that were NOT mapped by FEMA for flood insurance rates no longer are served as NODATA but are filled in with a value of 250, representing any unmapped areas which appear in the US Census boundary of the USA states and territories. The attribute table corresponding to value 250 will indicate that the area was not mapped.What can you do with this layer?This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "flood hazard areas" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "flood hazard areas" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK. In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro. The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one. Processing TemplatesCartographic Renderer - The default. These are meaningful classes grouped by FEMA which group its own Flood Zone Type and Subtype fields. This renderer uses FEMA's own cartographic interpretations of its flood zone and zone subtype fields to help you identify and assess risk. Flood Zone Type Renderer - Specifically renders FEMA FLD_ZONE (flood zone) attribute, which distinguishes the original, broadest categories of flood zones. This renderer displays high level categories of flood zones, and is less nuanced than the Cartographic Renderer. For example, a fld_zone value of X can either have moderate or low risk depending on location. This renderer will simply render fld_zone X as its own color without identifying "500 year" flood zones within that category.Flood Insurance Requirement Renderer - Shows Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) true-false status. This may be helpful if you want to show just the places where flood insurance is required. A value of True means flood insurance is mandatory in a majority of the area covered by each 10m pixel. Each of these three renderers have templates at three different raster resolutions depending on your analysis needs. To include the layer in web maps to serve maps and queries, the 10 meter renderers are the preferred option. These are served with overviews and render at all resolutions. However, when doing analysis of larger areas, we now offer two coarser resolutions of 30 and 90 meters in processing templates for added convenience and time savings.Data DictionaryMaking a copy of your area of interest using copyraster in arcgis pro will copy the layer's attribute table to your network alongside the local output raster. The raster attribute table in the copied raster will contain the flood zone, zone subtype, and special flood hazard area true/false flag which corresponds to each value in the layer for your area of interest. For your convienence, we also included a table in CSV format in the box below as a data dictionary you can use as an index to every value in the layer. Value,FLD_ZONE,ZONE_SUBTY,SFHA_TF 2,A,, 3,A,,F 4,A,,T 5,A,,T 6,A,,T 7,A,1 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD CONTAINED IN CHANNEL,T 8,A,1 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE,T 9,A,ADMINISTRATIVE FLOODWAY,T 10,A,COASTAL FLOODPLAIN,T 11,A,FLOWAGE EASEMENT AREA,T 12,A99,,T 13,A99,AREA WITH REDUCED FLOOD RISK DUE TO LEVEE,T 14,AE,,F 15,AE,,T 16,AE,,T 17,AE,,T 18,AE,1 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD CONTAINED IN CHANNEL,T 19,AE,1 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE,T 20,AE,"1 PCT CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE, COMMUNITY ENCROACHMENT",T 21,AE,"1 PCT CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE, FLOODWAY",T 22,AE,ADMINISTRATIVE FLOODWAY,T 23,AE,AREA OF SPECIAL CONSIDERATION,T 24,AE,COASTAL FLOODPLAIN,T 25,AE,COLORADO RIVER FLOODWAY,T 26,AE,COMBINED RIVERINE AND COASTAL FLOODPLAIN,T 27,AE,COMMUNITY ENCROACHMENT,T 28,AE,COMMUNITY ENCROACHMENT AREA,T 29,AE,DENSITY FRINGE AREA,T 30,AE,FLOODWAY,T 31,AE,FLOODWAY CONTAINED IN CHANNEL,T 32,AE,FLOODWAY CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE,T 33,AE,FLOWAGE EASEMENT AREA,T 34,AE,RIVERINE FLOODWAY IN COMBINED RIVERINE AND COASTAL ZONE,T 35,AE,RIVERINE FLOODWAY SHOWN IN COASTAL ZONE,T 36,AE,STATE ENCROACHMENT AREA,T 37,AH,,T 38,AH,,T 39,AH,FLOODWAY,T 40,AO,,T 41,AO,COASTAL FLOODPLAIN,T 42,AO,FLOODWAY,T 43,AREA NOT INCLUDED,,F 44,AREA NOT INCLUDED,,T 45,AREA NOT INCLUDED,,U 46,D,,F 47,D,,T 48,D,AREA WITH FLOOD RISK DUE TO LEVEE,F 49,OPEN WATER,,F 50,OPEN WATER,,T 51,OPEN WATER,,U 52,V,,T 53,V,COASTAL FLOODPLAIN,T 54,VE,,T 55,VE,,T 56,VE,COASTAL FLOODPLAIN,T 57,VE,RIVERINE FLOODWAY SHOWN IN COASTAL ZONE,T 58,X,,F 59,X,0.2 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD,F 60,X,0.2 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD,T 61,X,0.2 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD,U 62,X,0.2 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD CONTAINED IN CHANNEL,F 63,X,0.2 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE,F 64,X,0.2 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD IN COASTAL ZONE,F 65,X,0.2 PCT ANNUAL CHANCE FLOOD HAZARD IN COMBINED RIVERINE AND COASTAL ZONE,F 66,X,"1 PCT CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE, COMMUNITY ENCROACHMENT",F 67,X,"1 PCT CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE, FLOODWAY",F 68,X,1 PCT DEPTH LESS THAN 1 FOOT,F 69,X,1 PCT DRAINAGE AREA LESS THAN 1 SQUARE MILE,F 70,X,1 PCT FUTURE CONDITIONS,F 71,X,1 PCT FUTURE CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN STRUCTURE,F 72,X,"1 PCT FUTURE CONDITIONS, COMMUNITY ENCROACHMENT",F 73,X,"1 PCT FUTURE CONDITIONS, FLOODWAY",F 74,X,"1 PCT FUTURE IN STRUCTURE, COMMUNITY ENCROACHMENT",F 75,X,"1 PCT FUTURE IN STRUCTURE, FLOODWAY",F 76,X,AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD, 77,X,AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD,F 78,X,AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD,T 79,X,AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD,U 80,X,AREA OF SPECIAL CONSIDERATION,F 81,X,AREA WITH REDUCED FLOOD RISK DUE TO LEVEE,F 82,X,AREA WITH REDUCED FLOOD RISK DUE TO LEVEE,T 83,X,FLOWAGE EASEMENT AREA,F 84,X,1 PCT FUTURE CONDITIONS,T 85,AH,COASTAL FLOODPLAIN,T 86,AE,,U 87,AE,FLOODWAY,F 88,X,AREA WITH REDUCED FLOOD HAZARD DUE TO ACCREDITED LEVEE SYSTEM,F 89,X,530,F 90,VE,100,T 91,AE,100,T 92,A99,AREA WITH REDUCED FLOOD HAZARD DUE TO LEVEE SYSTEM,T 93,A99,AREA WITH REDUCED FLOOD HAZARD DUE TO NON-ACCREDITED LEVEE SYSTEM,T 94,A,COMBINED RIVERINE AND COASTAL FLOODPLAIN,T 250,AREA NOT INCLUDED,Not Mapped by FEMA, Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

When rain falls over land, a portion of it runs off into stream channels and storm water systems while the remainder infiltrates into the soil or returns to the atmosphere directly through evaporation.Physical properties of soil affect the rate that water is absorbed and the amount of runoff produced by a storm. Hydrologic soil group provides an index of the rate that water infiltrates a soil and is an input to rainfall-runoff models that are used to predict potential stream flow.For more information on using hydrologic soil group in hydrologic modeling see the publication Urban Hydrology for Small Watersheds (Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Release–55).Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Soil hydrologic groupUnits: ClassesCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerData Coordinate System: USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic (Hawaii), Western Pacific Albers Equal Area Conic (Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa)Mosaic Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereExtent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American SamoaSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServicePublication Date: December 2021ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape11.arcgis.com/arcgis/Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer for the contiguous United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The remaining areas were created with the gSSURGO database (Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa).This layer is derived from the 30m (contiguous U.S.) and 10m rasters (all other regions) produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for hydrologic group is derived from the gSSURGO map unit aggregated attribute table field Hydrologic Group - Dominant Conditions (hydgrpdcd).The seven classes of hydrologic soil group followed by definitions:Group A - Group A soils consist of deep, well drained sands or gravelly sands with high infiltration and low runoff rates.Group B - Group B soils consist of deep well drained soils with a moderately fine to moderately coarse texture and a moderate rate of infiltration and runoff.Group C - Group C consists of soils with a layer that impedes the downward movement of water or fine textured soils and a slow rate of infiltration.Group D - Group D consists of soils with a very slow infiltration rate and high runoff potential. This group is composed of clays that have a high shrink-swell potential, soils with a high water table, soils that have a clay pan or clay layer at or near the surface, and soils that are shallow over nearly impervious material.Group A/D - Group A/D soils naturally have a very slow infiltration rate due to a high water table but will have high infiltration and low runoff rates if drained.Group B/D - Group B/D soils naturally have a very slow infiltration rate due to a high water table but will have a moderate rate of infiltration and runoff if drained.Group C/D - Group C/D soils naturally have a very slow infiltration rate due to a high water table but will have a slow rate of infiltration if drained.What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application.Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "soil hydrologic group" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "soil hydrologic group" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro.Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer's built-in raster functions.The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.

Retirement Notice: This item is in mature support as of February 2023 and will be retired in December 2025. A new version of this item is available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the new version.This layer displays change in pixels of the Sentinel-2 10m Land Use/Land Cover product developed by Esri, Impact Observatory, and Microsoft. Available years to compare with 2021 are 2018, 2019 and 2020. By default, the layer shows all comparisons together, in effect showing what changed 2018-2021. But the layer may be changed to show one of three specific pairs of years, 2018-2021, 2019-2021, or 2020-2021.Showing just one pair of years in ArcGIS Online Map Viewer To show just one pair of years in ArcGIS Online Map viewer, create a filter. 1. Click the filter button. 2. Next, click add expression. 3. In the expression dialogue, specify a pair of years with the ProductName attribute. Use the following example in your expression dialogue to show only places that changed between 2020 and 2021:ProductNameis2020-2021 By default, places that do not change appear as a transparent symbol in ArcGIS Pro. But in ArcGIS Online Map Viewer, a transparent symbol may need to be set for these places after a filter is chosen. To do this: 4. Click the styles button.5. Under unique values click style options. 6. Click the symbol next to No Change at the bottom of the legend. 7. Click the slider next to "enable fill" to turn the symbol off. Showing just one pair of years in ArcGIS Pro To show just one pair of years in ArcGIS Pro, choose one of the layer's processing templates to single out a particular pair of years. The processing template applies a definition query that works in ArcGIS Pro. 1. To choose a processing template, right click the layer in the table of contents for ArcGIS Pro and choose properties. 2. In the dialogue that comes up, choose the tab that says processing templates. 3. On the right where it says processing template, choose the pair of years you would like to display. The processing template will stay applied for any analysis you may want to perform as well. How the change layer was created, combining LULC classes from two yearsImpact Observatory, Esri, and Microsoft used artificial intelligence to classify the world in 10 Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) classes for the years 2017-2021. Mosaics serve the following sets of change rasters in a single global layer: Change between 2018 and 2021Change between 2019 and 2021Change between 2020 and 2021To make this change layer, Esri used an arithmetic operation combining the cells from a source year and 2021 to make a change index value. ((from year * 16) + to year) In the example of the change between 2020 and 2021, the from year (2020) was multiplied by 16, then added to the to year (2021). Then the combined number is served as an index in an 8 bit unsigned mosaic with an attribute table which describes what changed or did not change in that timeframe. Variable mapped: Change in land cover between 2018, 2019, or 2020 and 2021 Data Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)Mosaic Projection: WGS84Extent: GlobalSource imagery: Sentinel-2Cell Size: 10m (0.00008983152098239751 degrees)Type: ThematicSource: Esri Inc.Publication date: January 2022 What can you do with this layer?Global LULC maps provide information on conservation planning, food security, and hydrologic modeling, among other things. This dataset can be used to visualize land cover anywhere on Earth. This layer can also be used in analyses that require land cover input. For example, the Zonal Statistics tools allow a user to understand the composition of a specified area by reporting the total estimates for each of the classes. Land Cover processingThis map was produced by a deep learning model trained using over 5 billion hand-labeled Sentinel-2 pixels, sampled from over 20,000 sites distributed across all major biomes of the world. The underlying deep learning model uses 6 bands of Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data: visible blue, green, red, near infrared, and two shortwave infrared bands. To create the final map, the model is run on multiple dates of imagery throughout the year, and the outputs are composited into a final representative map. Processing platformSentinel-2 L2A/B data was accessed via Microsoft’s Planetary Computer and scaled using Microsoft Azure Batch. Class definitions1. WaterAreas where water was predominantly present throughout the year; may not cover areas with sporadic or ephemeral water; contains little to no sparse vegetation, no rock outcrop nor built up features like docks; examples: rivers, ponds, lakes, oceans, flooded salt plains.2. TreesAny significant clustering of tall (~15-m or higher) dense vegetation, typically with a closed or dense canopy; examples: wooded vegetation, clusters of dense tall vegetation within savannas, plantations, swamp or mangroves (dense/tall vegetation with ephemeral water or canopy too thick to detect water underneath).4. Flooded vegetationAreas of any type of vegetation with obvious intermixing of water throughout a majority of the year; seasonally flooded area that is a mix of grass/shrub/trees/bare ground; examples: flooded mangroves, emergent vegetation, rice paddies and other heavily irrigated and inundated agriculture.5. CropsHuman planted/plotted cereals, grasses, and crops not at tree height; examples: corn, wheat, soy, fallow plots of structured land.7. Built AreaHuman made structures; major road and rail networks; large homogenous impervious surfaces including parking structures, office buildings and residential housing; examples: houses, dense villages / towns / cities, paved roads, asphalt.8. Bare groundAreas of rock or soil with very sparse to no vegetation for the entire year; large areas of sand and deserts with no to little vegetation; examples: exposed rock or soil, desert and sand dunes, dry salt flats/pans, dried lake beds, mines.9. Snow/IceLarge homogenous areas of permanent snow or ice, typically only in mountain areas or highest latitudes; examples: glaciers, permanent snowpack, snow fields. 10. CloudsNo land cover information due to persistent cloud cover.11. Rangeland Open areas covered in homogenous grasses with little to no taller vegetation; wild cereals and grasses with no obvious human plotting (i.e., not a plotted field); examples: natural meadows and fields with sparse to no tree cover, open savanna with few to no trees, parks/golf courses/lawns, pastures. Mix of small clusters of plants or single plants dispersed on a landscape that shows exposed soil or rock; scrub-filled clearings within dense forests that are clearly not taller than trees; examples: moderate to sparse cover of bushes, shrubs and tufts of grass, savannas with very sparse grasses, trees or other plants.CitationKarra, Kontgis, et al. “Global land use/land cover with Sentinel-2 and deep learning.” IGARSS 2021-2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2021.AcknowledgementsTraining data for this project makes use of the National Geographic Society Dynamic World training dataset, produced for the Dynamic World Project by National Geographic Society in partnership with Google and the World Resources Institute.For questions please email environment@esri.com

The National Insect and Disease Risk map identifies areas with risk of significant tree mortality due to insects and plant diseases. The layer identifies lands in three classes: areas with risk of tree mortality from insects and disease between 2013 and 2027, areas with lower tree mortality risk, and areas that were formerly at risk but are no longer at risk due to disturbance (human or natural) between 2012 and 2018. Areas with risk of tree mortality are defined as places where at least 25% of standing live basal area greater than one inch in diameter will die over a 15-year time frame (2013 to 2027) due to insects and diseases.The National Insect and Disease Risk map, produced by the US Forest Service FHAAST, is part of a nationwide strategic assessment of potential hazard for tree mortality due to major forest insects and diseases. Dataset Summary Phenomenon Mapped: Risk of tree mortality due to insects and diseaseUnits: MetersCell Size: 30 meters in Hawaii and 240 meters in Alaska and the Contiguous USSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: 2-bit unsigned integerData Coordinate System: NAD 1983 Albers (Contiguous US), WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), Hawaii Albers (Hawaii)Mosaic Projection: North America Albers Equal Area ConicExtent: Alaska, Hawaii, and the Contiguous United States Source: National Insect Disease Risk MapPublication Date: 2018ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape11.arcgis.com/arcgis/This layer was created from the 2018 version of the National Insect Disease Risk Map.What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application.Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "insects and disease" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "insects and disease" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use raster functions to create your own custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro. For example, Zonal Statistics as Table tool can be used to summarize risk of tree mortality across several watersheds, counties, or other areas that you may be interested in such as areas near homes.In ArcGIS Online you can change then layer's symbology in the image display control, set the layer's transparency, and control the visible scale range.The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.

Impervious surfaces are surfaces that do not allow water to pass through. Examples of these surfaces include highways, parking lots, rooftops, and airport runways. Instead of allowing rain to pass into the soil, impervious surfaces cause water to collect at the surface, then run off. An increase in impervious surface area causes an increase of water volume which needs to be managed by stormwater systems. With the flow come pollutants, which collect on impervious surfaces then discharge with the runoff into streams and the ocean. Runoff water does not enter the water table, and that can cause other management issues, such as interruptions in baseline stream flow.The NLCD imperviousness layer represents urban impervious surfaces as a percentage of developed surface over every 30-meter pixel in the United States. Phenomenon Mapped: The proportion of the landscape that is impervious to water.Time Extent: 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021 for the lower 48 conterminous US states. A small portion of Alaska around Anchorage displays a time series of 2001, 2011, and 2016. Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands unfortunately only have data for 2001 so there is only one image in the series. This information may be used in conjunction with the USA NLCD Land Cover layer.Units: PercentCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerData Coordinate System: North America Albers Equal Area Conic (102008)Mosaic Projection: North America Albers Equal Area Conic (102008)Extent: CONUS, Hawaii, A portion of Alaska around Anchorage, District of Columbia, Puerto RicoNoData Value: 127Source: Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics ConsortiumPublication Date: June 30, 2023ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape10.arcgis.com/arcgis/Time SeriesBy default, this layer will appear in your client with a time slider which allows you to play the series as an animation. The animation will advance year by year, but the layer only changes appearance every few years in the lower 48 states, in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021. To select just one year in the series, first turn the time series off on the time slider, then create a definition query on the layer which selects only the desired year.Time Series DescriptorMRLC issued a set of companion rasters with this impervious surface layer showing the reason why each pixel is impervious. This companion layer, called the Developed Imperviousness Descriptor, is not currently available in this map service. The descriptor layer identifies types of roads, core urban areas, and energy production sites for each impervious pixel to allow deeper analysis of developed features. The descriptor layer may be downloaded directly from MRLC and added to ArcGIS Pro.Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto RicoAt this time Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico are produced with a different methodology, and are not set up to be directly compared the way the CONUS time series is. To analyze change between the latest two data years for this portion of Alaska, be sure to use the NLCD 2011 to 2016 Developed Impervious Change raster. For Hawaii and Puerto Rico, only the year 2001 is available for download at the MRLC.North America Albers ProjectionAll NLCD layers in the Living Atlas are projected into the North America Albers Projection before serving in the Living Atlas. This allows the coterminous USA, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska to be served from a common projection and analyzed together. In tests performed by esri, the NLCD land cover classes after projection to North America Albers had the exact same number of pixels in input as output, but pixels had been slightly rearranged after projection. Processing TemplatesThis layer comes with two color schemes, cool and warm. The default is a cool gray color scheme, designed to look good on light and dark gray web maps. To choose a warm color scheme which was the default until 2021, change the processing template to the Impervious Surface Warm Renderer in your map client.Dataset SummaryThe National Land Cover Database products are created through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC). The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of federal agencies, consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.What can you do with this layer?This layer can be used to create maps and to visualize the underlying data. This layer can be used as an analytic input in ArcGIS Desktop.This layer is part of a larger collection of landscape layers that you can use to perform a wide variety of mapping and analysis tasks.The Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore the landscape layers and many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics.

Albedo measures the reflectivity of an object. Surfaces that are black reflect little light and have low albedo values while white surfaces reflect most of the light striking them and have high albedo values. Albedo is measured on a scale of 0 (no light reflected) to 1 (100% of light reflected). Albedo is measured using a scale of 0 (no light reflected) to 1 (100% of the light is reflected). Divide each integer"s raw pixel value by one hundred to find its representative albedo value. Thus, a pixel with the value of 24 represents an albedo value of 0.24 while a pixel with the value of 38 represents the albedo value 0.38. Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Soil albedoGeographic Extent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa.Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereData Coordinate System: WKID 5070 USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WKID 3338 WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), WKID 4326 WGS 1984 Decimal Degrees (Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, American Samoa, and Hawaii).Units: NoneCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServiceUpdate Frequency: AnnualPublication Date: December 2024 Typical albedo values:Fresh asphalt 0.04Worn asphalt 0.12Confier forest 0.08 – 0.15Deciduous trees 0.15 – 0.18Bare soil 0.17Green grass 0.25Desert sand 0.4New concrete 0.55Ocean ice 0.5 – 0.7Fresh snow 0.8-0.9 Albedo is used in climate and water cycle models. Estimates of evapotranspiration rate and prediction of soil water balances require albedo values. Soil hydrology models that are part of water quality and resource assessment programs also require albedo. Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer. This layer is derived from the 30m rasters produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for soil albedo is derived from the gSSURGO component table field Albedo Dry - Representative Value (albedodry_r). The value in this layer is the average value for all components of each map unit weighted by component percent (comppct_r). What can you do with this layer?This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map: In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "albedo" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "albedo" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro. Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer"s built-in raster functions. The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

This layer includes Landsat GLS, Landsat 8, and Landsat 9 imagery for use in visualization and analysis. This layer is time enabled and includes a number band combinations and indices rendered on demand. The Landsat 8 and 9 imagery includes nine multispectral bands from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and two bands from the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS). It is updated daily with new imagery directly sourced from the USGS Landsat collection on AWS.Geographic CoverageGlobal Land Surface.Polar regions are available in polar-projected Imagery Layers: Landsat Arctic Views and Landsat Antarctic Views.Temporal CoverageThis layer is updated daily with new imagery.Working in tandem, Landsat 8 and 9 revisit each point on Earth's land surface every 8 days.Most images collected from January 2015 to present are included.Approximately 5 images for each path/row from 2013 and 2014 are also included.This layer also includes imagery from the Global Land Survey* (circa 2010, 2005, 2000, 1990, 1975).Product LevelThe Landsat 8 and 9 imagery in this layer is comprised of Collection 2 Level-1 data.The imagery has Top of Atmosphere (TOA) correction applied.TOA is applied using the radiometric rescaling coefficients provided the USGS.The TOA reflectance values (ranging 0 – 1 by default) are scaled using a range of 0 – 10,000.Image Selection/FilteringA number of fields are available for filtering, including Acquisition Date, Estimated Cloud Cover, and Product ID.To isolate and work with specific images, either use the ‘Image Filter’ to create custom layers or add a ‘Layer Filter’ to restrict the default layer display to a specified image or group of images.To isolate a specific mission, use the Layer Filter and the dataset_id or SensorName fields.Visual RenderingThe default rendering in this layer is Agriculture (bands 6,5,2) with Dynamic Range Adjustment (DRA). Brighter green indicates more vigorous vegetation.The DRA version of each layer enables visualization of the full dynamic range of the images.Rendering (or display) of band combinations and calculated indices is done on-the-fly from the source images via Raster Functions.Various pre-defined Raster Functions can be selected or custom functions can be created.Pre-defined functions: Natural Color with DRA, Agriculture with DRA, Geology with DRA, Color Infrared with DRA, Bathymetric with DRA, Short-wave Infrared with DRA, Normalized Difference Moisture Index Colorized, NDVI Raw, NDVI Colorized, NBR Raw15 meter Landsat Imagery Layers are also available: Panchromatic and Pansharpened.Multispectral Bands

Band

Description

Wavelength (µm)

Spatial Resolution (m)

1

Coastal aerosol

0.43 - 0.45

30

2

Blue

0.45 - 0.51

30

3

Green

0.53 - 0.59

30

4

Red

0.64 - 0.67

30

5

Near Infrared (NIR)

0.85 - 0.88

30

6

SWIR 1

1.57 - 1.65

30

7

SWIR 2

2.11 - 2.29

30

8

Cirrus (in OLI this is band 9)

1.36 - 1.38

30

9

QA Band (available with Collection 1)*

NA

30

*More about the Quality Assessment BandTIRS Bands

Band

Description

Wavelength (µm)

Spatial Resolution (m)

10

TIRS1

10.60 - 11.19

100 * (30)

11

TIRS2

11.50 - 12.51

100 * (30)

*TIRS bands are acquired at 100 meter resolution, but are resampled to 30 meter in delivered data product.Additional Usage NotesImage exports are limited to 4,000 columns x 4,000 rows per request.This dynamic imagery layer can be used in Web Maps and ArcGIS Pro as well as web and mobile applications using the ArcGIS REST APIs.WCS and WMS compatibility means this imagery layer can be consumed as WCS or WMS services.The Landsat Explorer App is another way to access and explore the imagery.Data SourceLandsat imagery is sourced from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Data is hosted in Amazon Web Services as part of their Public Data Sets program.For information, see Landsat 8 and Landsat 9.*The Global Land Survey includes images from Landsat 1 through Landsat 7. Band numbers and band combinations differ from those of Landsat 8, but have been mapped to the most appropriate band as in the above table. For more information about the Global Land Survey, visit GLS.

This map features Africa Land Cover at 30m resolution from MDAUS BaseVue 2013, referencing the World Land Cover 30m BaseVue 2013 layer.Land cover data represent a descriptive thematic surface for characteristics of the land's surface such as densities or types of developed areas, agricultural lands, and natural vegetation regimes. Land cover data are the result of a model, so a good way to think of the values in each cell are as the predominating value rather than the only characteristic in that cell.Land use and land cover data are critical and fundamental for environmental monitoring, planning, and assessment.Dataset SummaryBaseVue 2013 is a commercial global, land use / land cover (LULC) product developed by MDA. BaseVue covers the Earth’s entire land area, excluding Antarctica. BaseVue is independently derived from roughly 9,200 Landsat 8 images and is the highest spatial resolution (30m), most current LULC product available. The capture dates for the Landsat 8 imagery range from April 11, 2013 to June 29, 2014. The following 16 classes of land use / land cover are listed by their cell value in this layer: Deciduous Forest: Trees > 3 meters in height, canopy closure >35% (<25% inter-mixture with evergreen species) that seasonally lose their leaves, except Larch.Evergreen Forest: Trees >3 meters in height, canopy closure >35% (<25% inter-mixture with deciduous species), of species that do not lose leaves. (will include coniferous Larch regardless of deciduous nature).Shrub/Scrub: Woody vegetation <3 meters in height, > 10% ground cover. Only collect >30% ground cover.Grassland: Herbaceous grasses, > 10% cover, including pasture lands. Only collect >30% cover.Barren or Minimal Vegetation: Land with minimal vegetation (<10%) including rock, sand, clay, beaches, quarries, strip mines, and gravel pits. Salt flats, playas, and non-tidal mud flats are also included when not inundated with water.Not Used (in other MDA products 6 represents urban areas or built up areas, which have been split here in into values 20 and 21).Agriculture, General: Cultivated crop landsAgriculture, Paddy: Crop lands characterized by inundation for a substantial portion of the growing seasonWetland: Areas where the water table is at or near the surface for a substantial portion of the growing season, including herbaceous and woody species (except mangrove species)Mangrove: Coastal (tropical wetlands) dominated by Mangrove speciesWater: All water bodies greater than 0.08 hectares (1 LS pixel) including oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streamsIce / Snow: Land areas covered permanently or nearly permanent with ice or snowClouds: Areas where no land cover interpretation is possible due to obstruction from clouds, cloud shadows, smoke, haze, or satellite malfunctionWoody Wetlands: Areas where forest or shrubland vegetation accounts for greater than 20% of vegetative cover and the soil or substrate periodically is saturated with, or covered by water. Only used within the continental U.S.Mixed Forest: Areas dominated by trees generally greater than 5 meters tall, and greater than 20% of total vegetation cover. Neither deciduous nor evergreen species are greater than 75% of total tree cover. Only used within the continental U.S.Not UsedNot UsedNot UsedNot UsedHigh Density Urban: Areas with over 70% of constructed materials that are a minimum of 60 meters wide (asphalt, concrete, buildings, etc.). Includes residential areas with a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation where constructed materials account for >60%. Commercial, industrial, and transportation i.e., Train stations, airports, etc.Medium-Low Density Urban: Areas with 30%-70% of constructed materials that are a minimum of 60 meters wide (asphalt, concrete, buildings, etc.). Includes residential areas with a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation, where constructed materials account for greater than 40%. Commercial, industrial, and transportation i.e., Train stations, airports, etc.MDA updated the underlying data in late 2016 and this service was updated in February 2017. An improved selection of cloud-free images was used to produce the update, resulting in improvement of classification quality to 80% of the tiles for this service.What can you do with this layer?This layer can be used to create maps and to visualize the underlying data across the ArcGIS platform. It can also be used as an analytic input in ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro.This layer has query, identify, and export image services available. The layer is restricted to an 16,000 x 16,000 pixel limit, which represents an area of nearly 300 miles on a side. This layer is part of a larger collection of landscape layers that you can use to perform a wide variety of mapping and analysis tasks.

Wetlands are areas where water is present at or near the surface of the soil during at least part of the year. Wetlands provide habitat for many species of plants and animals that are adapted to living in wet habitats. Wetlands form characteristic soils, absorb pollutants and excess nutrients from aquatic systems, help buffer the effects of high flows, and recharge groundwater. Data on the distribution and type of wetland play an important role in land use planning and several federal and state laws require that wetlands be considered during the planning process.The National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) was designed to assist land managers in wetland conservation efforts. The NWI is managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: WetlandsUnits: MetersCell Size: 10 metersSource Type: ThematicPixel Type: Unsigned integer 16 bitData Coordinate System: North America Albers Equal Area Conic (WKID 102008)Mosaic Projection: North America Albers Equal Area Conic (WKID 102008)Extent: 50 United States plus Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and US Minor Outlying IslandsSource: U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePublication Date: October 26, 2024 ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape11.arcgis.com/arcgis/This layer was created from the October 26, 2024 version of the NWI. The original NWI features were downloaded from USFWS and then converted to a single part feature class using the Multipart To Singlepart tool. After that, the Dice tool was used to break up features larger than 50,000 vertices. The diced, singlepart features were projected to North America Albers projection, then the Repair Geometry tool was run on the features, using tool defaults, to prepare it for a clean rasterization. The features were then converted to several rasters in North America Albers projection using the Polygon to Raster Tool. The National Land Cover Dataset was used as a snap raster for the rasterization process. The rasters representing different parts of the USA are served together as a single layer from a mosaic dataset on the server.This layer includes attributes from the original dataset as well as attributes added by Esri for use in the default pop-up and to allow the user to query and filter the data. NWI derived attributes:Wetland Code - a code that identifies specific attributes of the wetlandWetland Type - one of 8 wetland typesEsri created attributes:System - code indicating the system and subsystem of the wetlandClass - code indicating the class and subclass of the wetlandModifier 1, Modifier 2, Modifier 3, Modifier 4 - these four fields contain letter codes for modifiers applied to the wetland descriptionSystem Name - the name of the system (Marine, Estuarine, Riverine, Lacustrine, or Palustrine)Subsystem Name - the name of the subsystemClass Name - the name of the classSubclass Name - the name of the subclassModifier 1 Name, Modifier 2 Name, Modifier 3 Name , Modifier 4 Name - these four fields contain names for modifiers applied to the wetland descriptionPopup Header - this field contains a text string that is used to create the header in the default pop-up System Text - this field contains a text string that is used to create the system description text in the default pop-upClass Text - this field contains a text string that is used to create the class description text in the default pop-upModifier Text - this field contains a text string that is used to create the modifier description text in the default pop-upSpecies Text - this field contains a text string that is used to create the species description text in the default pop-upCodes, names, and text fields were derived from the publication Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States.The layer serves an index value from a mosaic dataset on the enterprise server. It uses an attribute table function on the mosaic to serve the attributes that appear in the popup for the layer. Because there are more than 2,000 integer values served by the layer, most map clients can not render a legend for this layer. A colormap is used after the attribute table function on the mosaic dataset to help the layer render in the colors intended for the layer.What can you do with this layer?This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application.Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "USA Wetlands" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "USA Wetlands" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro.The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.

Soil loss tolerance factor is the maximum rate of soil loss that will permit crop productivity to be sustained economically and indefinitely on a given soil. Soil loss tolerance is rated as 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 tons per acre per year. The primary use for soil loss tolerance factor is evaluating the effectiveness of erosion control measures on farmland. Soil loss tolerance factor serves as a quantitative standard to compare to erosion rate estimates from models such as the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation. Farmlands where soil loss tolerance factor is less than modeled erosion rates are considered unsustainable. Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Soil loss toleranceUnits: tons/acre/yearCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerData Coordinate System: WKID 5070 USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WKID 3338 WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), WKID 4326 WGS 1984 Decimal Degrees (Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, American Samoa, and Hawaii).Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServiceUpdate Frequency: AnnualPublication Date: December 2024 Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer. This layer is derived from the 30m rasters produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for soil loss tolerance is derived from the gSSURGO component table field T (tfact). The value in this layer is the average value for all components of each map unit weighted by component percent (comppct_r). What can you do with this layer?This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis acrossthe ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting AddthenBrowse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "loss tolerance" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and selectAdd Datafrom the Map Tab. SelectDataat the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expandPortalif necessary, then selectLiving Atlas. Type "loss tolerance" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK. In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro. Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer"s built-in raster functions. The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one. Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Rangelands are regions dominated by grasses and shrubs including savannahs, grasslands, and deserts. Rangelands provide valuable forage for gazing and browsing animals. This layer quantifies annual range production in pounds/acre/year.A raw pixel value in this service represents the number of pounds of range forage expected per acre per year.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Range Forage ProductionUnits: pounds/acre/yearCell Size: 30 meterSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerData Coordinate System: USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US), WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic (Hawaii)Mosaic Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereExtent: The western portion of the continental U.S., Florida, a small part of Alaska, and the Island of HawaiiSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServicePublication Date: December 2021ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape11.arcgis.com/arcgis/Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer for the contiguous United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The remaining areas were created with the gSSURGO database (Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa).This layer is derived from the 30m (contiguous U.S.) and 10m rasters (all other regions) produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for range production is derived from the gSSURGO component table field Range Production - Representative Value (rsprod_r). The value in this layer is the average value for all components of each map unit weighted by component percent (comppct_r).What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application.Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "range production" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "range production" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro.Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer's built-in raster functions.The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.

Rangelands are regions dominated by grasses and shrubs including savannahs, grasslands, and deserts. Rangelands provide valuable forage for gazing and browsing animals. This layer quantifies annual range production in pounds/acre/year. A raw pixel value in this service represents the number of pounds of range forage expected per acre per year. Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Range Forage ProductionGeographic Extent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii.Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereData Coordinate System: WKID 5070 USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US), WKID 3338 WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), WKID 4326 WGS 1984 Decimal Degrees (Hawaii).Units: pounds/acre/yearCell Size: 30 meterSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServiceUpdate Frequency: AnnualPublication Date: December 2024 Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer. This layer is derived from the 30m rasters produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for range production is derived from the gSSURGO component table field Range Production - Representative Value (rsprod_r). The value in this layer is the average value for all components of each map unit weighted by component percent (comppct_r). What can you do with this layer?This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis acrossthe ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "range production" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map. In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "range production" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK. In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro. The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many otherbeautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one. Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Erosion, the loss of soil due to the effects of water and wind, can lead to serious degradation of lands and the loss of agricultural productivity.This layer classifies the amount of soil loss in the top soil layers in 5 classes:None: Area of soil deposition.Class 1: In this map unit,1 to 25 percent of the original topsoil has been lost to erosion. Class 2: In this map unit, 1 to 25 percent of the original topsoil has been lost to erosion.Class 3: In this map unit, 75 to 99 percent of the original topsoil has been lost to erosion.Class 4: In this map unit, all of the original topsoil has been lost to erosionDataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Top soil loss due to erosionUnits: ClassesCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerData Coordinate System: USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic (Hawaii), Western Pacific Albers Equal Area Conic (Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa)Mosaic Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereExtent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American SamoaSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServicePublication Date: December 2021ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape11.arcgis.com/arcgis/Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer for the contiguous United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The remaining areas were created with the gSSURGO database (Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa).This layer is derived from the 30m (contiguous U.S.) and 10m rasters (all other regions) produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for runoff is derived from the gSSURGO component table field Erosion Class (erocl). The value in this layer is the dominant condition found within the map unit.What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application.Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "erosion class" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "erosion class" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro.Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer's built-in raster functions.The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.

Soil loss tolerance factor is the maximum rate of soil loss that will permit crop productivity to be sustained economically and indefinitely on a given soil. Soil loss tolerance is expressed as tons/acre/year. The primary use for soil loss tolerance factor is evaluating the effectiveness of erosion control measures on farmland. Soil loss tolerance factor serves as a quantitative standard to compare to erosion rate estimates from models such as the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation. Farmlands where soil loss tolerance factor is less than modeled erosion rates are considered unsustainable.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Soil loss toleranceUnits: tons/acre/yearCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerData Coordinate System: USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic (Hawaii), Western Pacific Albers Equal Area Conic (Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa)Mosaic Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereExtent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American SamoaSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServicePublication Date: December 2021ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape11.arcgis.com/arcgis/Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer for the contiguous United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The remaining areas were created with the gSSURGO database (Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa).This layer is derived from the 30m (contiguous U.S.) and 10m rasters (all other regions) produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for soil loss tolerance is derived from the gSSURGO component table field T (tfact). The value in this layer is the average value for all components of each map unit weighted by component percent (comppct_r). What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application.Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "loss tolerance" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "loss tolerance" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro.Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer's built-in raster functions.The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.

This layer displays change in pixels of the Sentinel-2 10m Land Use/Land Cover product developed by Esri, Impact Observatory, and Microsoft. Available years to compare with 2021 are 2018, 2019 and 2020.By default, the layer shows all comparisons together, in effect showing what changed 2018-2021. But the layer may be changed to show one of three specific pairs of years, 2018-2021, 2019-2021, or 2020-2021.Showing just one pair of years in ArcGIS Online Map ViewerTo show just one pair of years in ArcGIS Online Map viewer, create a filter.1. Click the filter button.2. Next, click add expression.3. In the expression dialogue, specify a pair of years with the ProductName attribute. Use the following example in your expression dialogue to show only places that changed between 2020 and 2021:ProductNameis2020-2021By default, places that do not change appear as a transparent symbol in ArcGIS Pro. But in ArcGIS Online Map Viewer, a transparent symbol may need to be set for these places after a filter is chosen. To do this:4. Click the styles button.5. Under unique values click style options.6. Click the symbol next to No Change at the bottom of the legend.7. Click the slider next to "enable fill" to turn the symbol off.Showing just one pair of years in ArcGIS ProTo show just one pair of years in ArcGIS Pro, choose one of the layer's processing templates to single out a particular pair of years. The processing template applies a definition query that works in ArcGIS Pro.1. To choose a processing template, right click the layer in the table of contents for ArcGIS Pro and choose properties.2. In the dialogue that comes up, choose the tab that says processing templates.3. On the right where it says processing template, choose the pair of years you would like to display.The processing template will stay applied for any analysis you may want to perform as well.How the change layer was created, combining LULC classes from two yearsImpact Observatory, Esri, and Microsoft used artificial intelligence to classify the world in 10 Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) classes for the years 2017-2021. Mosaics serve the following sets of change rasters in a single global layer:Change between 2018 and 2021Change between 2019 and 2021Change between 2020 and 2021To make this change layer, Esri used an arithmetic operation combining the cells from a source year and 2021 to make a change index value. ((from year * 16) + to year) In the example of the change between 2020 and 2021, the from year (2020) was multiplied by 16, then added to the to year (2021). Then the combined number is served as an index in an 8 bit unsigned mosaic with an attribute table which describes what changed or did not change in that timeframe.Variable mapped: Change in land cover between 2018, 2019, or 2020 and 2021Data Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)Mosaic Projection: WGS84Extent: GlobalSource imagery: Sentinel-2Cell Size: 10m (0.00008983152098239751 degrees)Type: ThematicSource: Esri Inc.Publication date: January 2022What can you do with this layer?Global LULC maps provide information on conservation planning, food security, and hydrologic modeling, among other things. This dataset can be used to visualize land cover anywhere on Earth. This layer can also be used in analyses that require land cover input. For example, the Zonal Statistics tools allow a user to understand the composition of a specified area by reporting the total estimates for each of the classes.Land Cover processingThis map was produced by a deep learning model trained using over 5 billion hand-labeled Sentinel-2 pixels, sampled from over 20,000 sites distributed across all major biomes of the world. The underlying deep learning model uses 6 bands of Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data: visible blue, green, red, near infrared, and two shortwave infrared bands. To create the final map, the model is run on multiple dates of imagery throughout the year, and the outputs are composited into a final representative map.Processing platformSentinel-2 L2A/B data was accessed via Microsoft’s Planetary Computer and scaled using Microsoft Azure Batch.Class definitions1. WaterAreas where water was predominantly present throughout the year; may not cover areas with sporadic or ephemeral water; contains little to no sparse vegetation, no rock outcrop nor built up features like docks; examples: rivers, ponds, lakes, oceans, flooded salt plains.2. TreesAny significant clustering of tall (~15-m or higher) dense vegetation, typically with a closed or dense canopy; examples: wooded vegetation, clusters of dense tall vegetation within savannas, plantations, swamp or mangroves (dense/tall vegetation with ephemeral water or canopy too thick to detect water underneath).4. Flooded vegetationAreas of any type of vegetation with obvious intermixing of water throughout a majority of the year; seasonally flooded area that is a mix of grass/shrub/trees/bare ground; examples: flooded mangroves, emergent vegetation, rice paddies and other heavily irrigated and inundated agriculture.5. CropsHuman planted/plotted cereals, grasses, and crops not at tree height; examples: corn, wheat, soy, fallow plots of structured land.7. Built AreaHuman made structures; major road and rail networks; large homogenous impervious surfaces including parking structures, office buildings and residential housing; examples: houses, dense villages / towns / cities, paved roads, asphalt.8. Bare groundAreas of rock or soil with very sparse to no vegetation for the entire year; large areas of sand and deserts with no to little vegetation; examples: exposed rock or soil, desert and sand dunes, dry salt flats/pans, dried lake beds, mines.9. Snow/IceLarge homogenous areas of permanent snow or ice, typically only in mountain areas or highest latitudes; examples: glaciers, permanent snowpack, snow fields. 10. CloudsNo land cover information due to persistent cloud cover.11. RangelandOpen areas covered in homogenous grasses with little to no taller vegetation; wild cereals and grasses with no obvious human plotting (i.e., not a plotted field); examples: natural meadows and fields with sparse to no tree cover, open savanna with few to no trees, parks/golf courses/lawns, pastures. Mix of small clusters of plants or single plants dispersed on a landscape that shows exposed soil or rock; scrub-filled clearings within dense forests that are clearly not taller than trees; examples: moderate to sparse cover of bushes, shrubs and tufts of grass, savannas with very sparse grasses, trees or other plants.CitationKarra, Kontgis, et al. “Global land use/land cover with Sentinel-2 and deep learning.” IGARSS 2021-2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2021.AcknowledgementsTraining data for this project makes use of the National Geographic Society Dynamic World training dataset, produced for the Dynamic World Project by National Geographic Society in partnership with Google and the World Resources Institute.For questions please email environment@esri.com

The National Commodity Crop Productivity Index (NCCPI) ranks the inherent capability of soils to produce agricultural crops without irrigation. For more information on how the NCCPI is calculated see User Guide for the National Commodity Crop Productivity Index.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: National Commodity Crop Productivity Index version 3.0Units: Thousandths of nccpi3all index value, served as integers (this layer's value of 889 equals 0.889 in the nccpi3all)Cell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerData Coordinate System: USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic (Hawaii), Western Pacific Albers Equal Area Conic (Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa)Mosaic Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereExtent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American SamoaSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServicePublication Date: December 2021, except Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands which are July 2020.ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape11.arcgis.com/arcgis/Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer for the contiguous United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The remaining areas were created with the gSSURGO database (Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa).This layer is derived from the 30m (contiguous U.S.) and 10m rasters (all other regions) produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for the National Commodity Crop Productivity Index is derived from the gSSURGO valu1 table field nccpi3all.Note: This layer serves the National Commodity Crop Productivity Index value from the 2021 version for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. In 2022 the gNATSGO source was missing its Valu1 table for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application.Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "soil crop production" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "soil crop production" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro.Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer's built-in raster functions.The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.

Version 3 of the Named Landforms of the World (NLWv3) is an update of version 2 of the Named Landforms of the World (NLWv2). NLWv2 will remain available as the compilation that best matches the work of E.M. Bridges and Richard E. Murphy. In NLWv3, we added attributes that describe each landform's volcanism based on data from the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP). We designed NLWv3 layers for two purposes:To label maps with broadly accepted names for physiographic features. To add landform attributes to other layers. For example, species observation data or other small features to enable rich and relevant descriptions for how those features relate to landforms. To accomplish this, typically, we use overlay tools such as Identity. For background, version 2 provided features with the physiographic and geomorphologic characteristics for the world's named landforms. This means it was more than just showing the land versus water or mountains versus plains; it also included the underlying structure and processes that created the landforms. We begin with the largest landform regions, which are continents, followed by tectonic plates, then divisions, provinces, sections, and finally, individual landforms. In adding the GVP volcanic landforms to NLWv3, we learned that volcanoes are relatively short-lived as landforms, with most not enduring for two million years. For context, the age of the rocks in most of the Earth's mountain ranges is in the tens to hundreds of millions of years. The full collection of layers and maps for NLWv3 are available in an ArcGIS Online Group named Named Landforms Of the World v3 (NLWv3) Layers and Maps. The GVP included two inventories--one for the Holocene Epoch, which are the volcanoes that formed during most recent 11,700 years (since the last ice age). The other is for the Pleistocene Epoch, which precedes the Holocene, and lasted about 2.6 million years. While the Pleistocene epoch is 222 times longer than the Holocene, it only has 7.8% more volcanoes. Most of the volcanoes that formed during the Pleistocene have disappeared through natural erosional and depositional processes. In NLWv3, volcanic landforms include calderas, clusters and complexes, shields, stratovolcanoes, and minor volcanic features such as cinder cones, lava domes, and fissure vents. Not all the GVP features, particularly fissure vents and remnants of calderas, are large enough to be mapped as polygons in NLWv3. Similarly, complexes and volcanic fields typically had greater areas and included many individual cinder cones and calderas. ContinentCount of Volcanic LandformsArea km2 of Volcanic Landforms (% of land area)Europe7822,888 (0.23%)Antarctica4234,035 (0.27%)Australia14757,422 (0.65%)South America37081,475 (0.46%)Small Volcanic Islands559124,310 (8.52%)Africa282147,116 (0.50%)Asia698227,486 (0.53%)North America622295,340 (1.23%)Global Totals2,7981,000,073 (0.67%)This table shows the distribution of volcanic landforms and their surface areas. Overview of UpdatesCorresponding landform polygons now include attributes for the GVP's ID, name, province, and region. Details are provided below in the volcanic attributes section. Additionally, a text description of volcanism for each GVP feature was derived from these attributes to provide a reader-friendly characterization of each volcanic landform.Landforms of Antarctica. Given recent analysis of Antarctica and the use of GVP data, rudimentary landform features for Antarctica have been added. See details in the Antarctica section below.Refined the definition of Murphy's Isolated Volcanics classification. If the volcanic landform occurred outside of an orogenic, rifting, or subducting zone, only then did we consider it isolated. The areas along tectonic plate boundaries are where volcanoes typically occur. Only volcanoes occurring in areas with no tectonic activity are considered isolated. These typically occur in mid-continent or mid-tectonic plate. See details in the Isolated Volcanic Areas section.Edits to tectonic process attributes in selected areas. The GVP point locations for volcanoes include an attribute for the underlying tectonic process. The concept matched the existing tectonic process in the NLWv2, and we compared the values. When the values differed, we reviewed research and made changes. See details in the Tectonic Process section below.Minor boundary changes at the province, section, and landform level in the western mountains of North and South America. Details are provided below in the Boundary Change Locations section. Technical CharacteristicsThe NLWv2 and NLWv3 are derived from the same raster datasets used to produce the 2018 version of the World Terrestrial Ecosystems (WTEs), which, when combined, have a lowest-common-denominator resolution (minimum mapping unit) of 1 km. Some features, such as very small islands, were not included in NLWv3, and complex coastlines were simplified and were only included if the 1-km cell contained at least 50% land. Because the coastlines in the raster datasets varied by as much as 3 km from the actual coastline, nearly always due to missing land. Many of the worst such cases in NLWv2 were manually corrected using the 12-30-meter resolution World Hillshade layer as a guide. In NLWv3, we continued this work by adding 247 volcanic islands, some of which were smaller than 1 km in area. We estimate that these islands comprise about one percent of the world's smaller islands. In NLWv3, we also refined the coastlines of volcanic coastal areas, particularly in Oceania and Japan. For NLWv4, we plan to continue this refinement work, intending that future versions of NLW will have a progressively refined, medium-resolution coastline. However, we do not intend to capture the full detail of the Global Islands dataset, which was produced from 30-m Landsat data. Detailed Description of Updates Volcanic AttributesThe GVP Excel spreadsheets for the Holocene and Pleistocene epochs, which contained the coordinates and attributes for each volcano, were combined. A column for the geologic age was added before saving the spreadsheet as a .CSV file and importing into ArcGIS Pro. The XY Table to Points tool was used to create point features. Nearly ten percent of the point locations that lacked sufficient precision to fall within the correct landform polygon were revised manually in order to assign the correct Volcano ID to each polygon.2,394 of the 2,662 GVP volcanic features were assigned to landform polygons. 198 GVP features were not assigned because they represented undersea features, and 75 GVP features did not have apparent corresponding landform polygons because they were either too small or indistinguishable from surrounding topography. Of the 2,394 assigned GVP features, 48% are Holocene Age features and 52% are Pleistocene epoch features. 225 GVP features did not fall within within a landform feature that represented topographically a volcanic landform feature, such as a caldera or stratovolcano. This was usually due to insufficient precision of the GVP coordinates, which sometimes were rounded to the nearest integer of latitude and longitude and could therefore be over 50km away from the landform's location. AttributeDescriptionVolcano ID (SI)The six-digit unique ID for the Global Volcanism Program features.Volcano Name (SI)The Name of the volcanic feature as provided by the Global Volcanism Program. Volcanic Region (SI)The Name of the volcanic region as provided by the Global Volcanism Program. Volcanic Province (SI)The Name of the volcanic province as provided by the Global Volcanism Program. VolcanismA consistently formatted description volcanism for the landform feature based on the age, last eruption, landform type, and type of material. This information was not consistently available from the Global Volcanism Program, and we used a Python script to determine the condition of the Global Volcanism Program"s data and then include whatever information was available. AntarcticaSeveral recent analyses of Antarctica complemented the GVP point features. In particular, the British Antarctic Survey's 2019 Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet show sufficiently detailed land surface elevation beneath the ice sheets to support identifying topographic landform classes. We georeferenced the elevation image and combined it with Bridge's geomorphological divisions and provinces to divide the continent into different landform polygons. Additional work is needed to make these landform polygons as rich and accurately defined as those in NLWv2. Isolated Volcanic AreasThere are 333 Isolated Volcanic landforms in NLWv2. We intentionally expanded on Murphy"s map which could not show many of the smaller landforms and areas due to the 1:50,000,000 scale (poster sized map of the world). Murphy"s map only included isolated volcanic areas in three locations: north-central Africa, Hawaii, and Iceland. In NLWv2, we used the Global Lithological Map to identify several areas on each continent and used the example of Hawaii to include many other known volcanic islands. In most ways, Isolated Volcanics denoted geographic isolation from other mountain systems. NLWv3 includes 2,798 volcanic landform features, and 185 have been assigned Murphy's Isolated Volcanic structure class because they do not occur within a region with the tectonic process of orogenic, subduction, or rifting. These Isolated Volcanic landform features are located mostly in mid-tectonic plate regions of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and on islands, particularly in the southern hemisphere, with a few in North America and Asia. NLWv3 contains 2,603 volcanic landform features, occurring on all continents and on islands within all oceans. Tectonic ProcessThe GVP data included a tectonic setting attribute that was compiled independently of the NLWv2 tectonic setting variable. When these

Hydric soils are soils that form under conditions of saturation, flooding, or ponding long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part of the soil. Hydric soils are poorly or very poorly drained and under natural conditions, these soils are either saturated or inundated long enough during the growing season to support the growth and reproduction of wetland vegetation. Hydric soils are part of the legal definition for wetlands in the United States and are used to identify wetland areas that require a permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act prior to any ground disturbing activities. For more information on hydric soils see the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s publication Field Indicators of Hydric Soils in the United States. Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Hydric soilsGeographic Extent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa.Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereData Coordinate System: WKID 5070 USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WKID 3338 WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), WKID 4326 WGS 1984 Decimal Degrees (Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, American Samoa, and Hawaii).Units: PercentCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServiceUpdate Frequency: AnnualPublication Date: December 2024 Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer. This layer is derived from the 30m rasters produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for hydric class is derived from the gSSURGO map unit aggregated attribute table field Hydric Classification - Presence (hydclprs). What can you do with this layer?This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis acrossthe ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "hydric" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "hydric" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK. In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro. Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer"s built-in raster functions. The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many otherbeautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one. Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Annual Frost Free Period is the expected number of days between the last freezing temperature in spring (January-July) and the first freezing temperature in fall (August-December). The number of days is based on the probability that the values for the standard normal period will be exceeded in 5 years out of 10. For more information see the Natural Resources Conservation Service"sSoil Survey Manual. Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Length of frost-free seasonGeographic Extent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa.Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereData Coordinate System: WKID 5070 USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WKID 3338 WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), WKID 4326 WGS 1984 Decimal Degrees (Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, American Samoa, and Hawaii).Units: DaysCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServiceUpdate Frequency: AnnualPublication Date: December 2024 Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer. This layer is derived from the 30m rasters produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).The value for frost free period is derived from the gSSURGO component table field Frost Free Days - Representative Value (ffd_r). The value in this layer is the average value for all components of each map unit weighted by component percent (comppct_r). What can you do with this layer?This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis acrossthe ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application. Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selectingAddthenBrowse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "frost free" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then clickAdd to Map. In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and selectAdd Datafrom the Map Tab. SelectDataat the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expandPortalif necessary, then selectLiving Atlas. Type "frost free" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK. In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro. Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer"s built-in raster functions. The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many otherbeautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one. Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

This service is available to all ArcGIS Online users with organizational accounts. For more information on this service, including the terms of use, visit us online at https://goto.arcgisonline.com/landscape11/USA_Soils_Hydric_Class.Hydric soils are soils that form under conditions of saturation, flooding, or ponding long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part of the soil. Hydric soils are poorly or very poorly drained and under natural conditions, these soils are either saturated or inundated long enough during the growing season to support the growth and reproduction of wetland vegetation. Hydric soils are part of the legal definition for wetlands in the United States and are used to identify wetland areas that require a permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act prior to any ground disturbing activities. For more information on hydric soils see the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s publication Field Indicators of Hydric Soils in the United States.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Hydric soilsUnits: PercentCell Size: 30 metersSource Type: DiscretePixel Type: Unsigned integerData Coordinate System: USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS version (contiguous US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), WGS 1984 Albers (Alaska), Hawaii Albers Equal Area Conic (Hawaii), Western Pacific Albers Equal Area Conic (Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa)Mosaic Projection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereExtent: Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American SamoaSource: Natural Resources Conservation ServicePublication Date: July 2020ArcGIS Server URL: https://landscape11.arcgis.com/arcgis/Data from the gNATSGO database was used to create the layer for the contiguous United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The remaining areas were created with the gSSURGO database (Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and American Samoa).This layer is derived from the 30m (contiguous U.S.) and 10m rasters (all other regions) produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The value for hydric class is derived from the gSSURGO map unit aggregated attribute table field Hydric Classification - Presence (hydclprs).What can you do with this Layer? This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis across the ArcGIS system. This layer can be combined with your data and other layers from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro to create powerful web maps that can be used alone or in a story map or other application.Because this layer is part of the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World it is easy to add to your map:In ArcGIS Online, you can add this layer to a map by selecting Add then Browse Living Atlas Layers. A window will open. Type "hydric" in the search box and browse to the layer. Select the layer then click Add to Map.In ArcGIS Pro, open a map and select Add Data from the Map Tab. Select Data at the top of the drop down menu. The Add Data dialog box will open on the left side of the box, expand Portal if necessary, then select Living Atlas. Type "hydric" in the search box, browse to the layer then click OK.In ArcGIS Pro you can use the built-in raster functions or create your own to create custom extracts of the data. Imagery layers provide fast, powerful inputs to geoprocessing tools, models, or Python scripts in Pro.Online you can filter the layer to show subsets of the data using the filter button and the layer's built-in raster functions.The ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an easy way to explore many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics like this one.