In support of today’s announcement from the White House regarding climate change and modernizing maps of Alaska, Esri has committed to provide tools and data to improve climate resilience for citizens, communities, and companies in Alaska and the Arctic.
Esri will deploy and provide easy access to new digital elevation models of the Alaska (DEMs) as they are released, along with supporting maps and climate data, tools, and applications. Esri will also release newly developed tools for exploring and visualizing new elevation data, including tools for generating on-the-fly renderings of various terrain properties and tools that help communicate the scale of glacial retreat.
Later this week, Esri will release a pair of story maps highlighting new Arctic elevation data.
White House Fact Sheet: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/02/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-investments-combat-climate