Many Earth scientists use geographic information science/systems (GIS) in their work. This video has two goals: 1) emphasize that the creation and admiration of MAPS is a huge part of being a geologist. Many of us are fortunate to have the opportunity to create maps of our own – I hope you see some of my passion for this aspect of our science, and 2) give a simple tutorial for how to gather and manipulate digital elevation model (DEM) data to create a crisp hillshade in Esri’s ArcGIS Pro. I hope you find this video interesting.

LINKS:
https://dwtkns.com/srtm30m/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...
https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/a...

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Hi & Introduction
2:20 Downloading DEM tiles
4:53 Importing DEM into ArcPRO
6:30 Mosaic tiles to new raster
8:15 Enhancing a hillshade
13:05 Creating map layout
15:10 Final comments

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