GADAS Release Changelog

New Items

• Removed all CMORPH Data from the TOC and Analytics
• Renamed Ocean layers for clarity
• Incorporated new legends for SPAM Yam data
• Add new time aggregations of IMERG for display and the AAA tool
• Incorporated VIIRS NDVI into the RD tool and ensured its RD results work with ID and Calc

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Weekly Map Analytic chart bug with Jan. 1 as first day of year
• Fixed bug that had wrong forecast dates for the Wind Animation and Heat Map layers

New Items

• Added CPC Avg Temperature layers for time aggregations greater than 1 month (Rolling Month, 2-Month, 3-Month, 6-Month)
• Incorporated VIIRS NDVI and Anomaly and VIIRS PASG datasets into the Ag. Area Affected tool

Bug Fixes

• Modified the Ag. Profile tool to utilize FIPS code to select the countries in order to compensate for country name discrepancies amongst all the data sources
• Updated the descriptions for the Ag. Area Affected tool to denote more clearly the weather/climate raster layer requirement
• Updated Agricultural Lands labels and legend items for uniformity and clarity

New Items

• Added VIIRS NDVI, NDVI Anomaly and PASG Datasets
• Modifed the source of the tropical cyclone points and tracks

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug preventing the bookmark tool from working if an ID and Calc run was saved
• Fixed legend for recent earthquakes layer
• Removed nonworking earthquake Pager Alert layer
• Re-enabled html versions of most metadata links

New Items

• Added a new blank basemap
• Updated Ag Area Affected tool to handle new CPC Heat Damage Days legends for pentad and weekly time aggregations

Bug Fixes

• Ensured staging and production enviornments are showing the same data for Commodity Stastics Analytics

New Items

• Added CPC Heat Damage Days
• Added country and region level crop calendar data for Brazil
• Updated Mexico crop calendar data

Bug Fixes

• Fixed broken metadata links to point to xml version due to ArcGIS Online bug

New Items

• Added LandScan 2020 Population data to TOC as well to ID&Calc Tool
• Added Tropical Storm Swath (Forecast+Observed) layers to the TOC

Bug Fixes

• Fixed legend bug with the tropical cyclone radii layer

New Items

• Resorted crops in crop calendars by alphabetical order
• Incorporated new PS&D database into Commodity Statistics Analysis
• Added Storm-To-Date tropical storm layers
• Re-ordered Disaster section in the TOC

New Items

• Added crop calendars for new countries
• Changed scalebar to white for better contrast
• Added ESI data to the Ag Area Affected Tool
• Added Number of Days Since Rain and Number of Rain Days from the USAF 10km source and added them to the Ag Area Affected Tool
• Added Taiwan as a country able to be selected for the Ag Profile tool

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug with Dashboard Analytics where the most current year was not plotted as red if normals were selected
• Removed wildfire layer due to broken link
• Fixed link for current River Observations layer

New Items

• Re-architected Map and Dashboard Analytics for better performance for most variables
• Added CPC temperature and precipitation to Map and Dashboard Analytics
• Added "North Macedonia" to Commodity Statistics Charts
• Removed CPC Percent Soil Moisture Products
• Removed crop calendar source citation from Ag Profile
• Added WorldPop 2020 dataset for visualization
• Modified the appearance of the ESI services

New Items

• Re-architected the AG Area Affected tool for better performance
• Changed the symbology for CPC Soil Moisture, Percent Soil Moisture, and all temperature layers.
• Reordered Soil Moisture Layers in TOC
• Changed Macedonia in Ag Profile and ID and Calculate tool to "North Macedonia"
• Modified snow depth symbology to ensure only values greater than 1 cm are colored in blue

New Items

• Added LandSat 9 sensor to satellite imagery and analysis
• Replaced LandScan 2012 with WorldPop 2020 data in the ID and Calculate tool
• Re-architected the ID and Calculate tool for better performance
• Added metadata for CPC Soil Moisture products

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug that was preventing the ID functionality from working with all snow depth layers
• Fixed wording in Tour denoted correct location of date in Table of Contents
• Temporarily removed LandSat 4,5, and 7 sensors from satellite due to expired external link

New Items

• Added new GADAS in AGOL video to Story Maps and Videos page
• Modified link on splash screen to go to Story Maps page

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug in Dashboard Analytics that was preventing the states drop-down from updating when a new country is selected
• Fixed bugs that were preventing from the image options in Dashboard Analytics from working properly

New Items

• Added administrative titles to Map Analytics charts
• Modified the background of the Story Maps page
• Added metadata for WMO Average Temperature, USAF 7x Snow Cover, and 10m Sentinel Land Cover

Bug Fixes

• Reimplemented the ability to chart NDVI min/max/mean data and ensured it came from the entire historical record
• Fixed timeslider with SAR test datasets (internal only)

New Datasets

• Added new CPC temperature and soil moisture datasets for visualization and in the Ag Area Affected Tool
• Added corrected SPAM yield datasets

New Items

• Modified NDVI charts so the date of each data point corresponds to the ending date in the 8-day period
• Modified NDVI charts so missing values will be interpolated so there will be no data dropoffs in Map and Dashboard Analytics
• Added two new training videos to the GADAS Story Map and Video page

Bug Fixes

• Allowed users to see the most recent year in a cross-year query in both Map and Dashboard Analytics
• Ensured the states layer always appears below the countries layer upon initial app configuration
• Fixed bug that was preventing NDVI charts from working in Dashboard Analtics

New Datasets

• Added new Total Precipitation, Precipitation Departure, and Percent Normal Precipitation layers from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
• Added additional time aggregations to all CHIRPS Precipitation datasets

New Items

• Renamed "Rainfall Rank" datasets to "Precipitation Rank"
• Added new CPC and CHIRPS precipitation datasets to the AG Area Affected Tool
• Updated the historical storms data (Tracks, Rain, and Winds)
• Changed shakemap query to return all data going back about a month

• Fixed broken links in earthquake pager layer popups
• Fixed link to PDC active hazards in GADAS Story Map

New Items

• Added a new page to the Info section for Story Maps and Videos
• Added the 10m LandCover Dataset into the ID & Calc and AG Area Affected Tools
• Added the beginning and ending months/years for the datasets available in Map and Dashboard Analytics
• Added source citation to the commodity statistics charts

• Fixed numerous links in the "Other Useful Links" page

New Datasets

• Added Sentinel 2 Land Cover Dataset from 2020. Also includes Agricultural Lands
• Added Sentinel 1 SAR data for Hindu Kush region (internal use only)
• Added metadata links for MODIS 2019 Landcover, PASG, and Rainfall Rank Datasets

• Removed MPA from Dashboard and Map Analytics
• Removed two USAF and NASA SMOS soil moisture datasets (internal use only)

New Datasets

• Updated dams and reservoir layers and reformatted attributes for dams pop-up

New Datasets

• Global and National Risk Vulnerability Indices from PDC
• Volcanic Ash Forecasts from PDC
• Updated the service used for the Earthquakes Impacts and Losses data layer and the Shaking Intensity data layer to restore the functionality of these layers.
• Updated crop calendar data for China and source attribution for many countries
• Updated history of CHIRPS/GPM data in both Map and Dashboard Analytics to go back to 2010

• Fixed bookmarking bug related to satellite imagery
• Fixed bug that prevented satellite imagery tool from re-opening after viewing imagery from old Landsat sensors
• Fixed bug that was preventing the loader spinner from closing when a shapefile is uploaded
• Removed ability to upload KML files in User File Upload, as more modern versions of KML files cannot currently be supported
• Removed Isle of Man from Country labels and renamed country to "North Macedonia"
• Fixed bug that was affecting Map Analytics when making a query using data from a leap-year

• Removed PDC historical hazards from Table of Contents
• Restored ability to view LandSat 4, 5, and 7 sensors

• Bookmarking and Export Images video tutorials have been added to "View Other Useful Resources Page" under "Story Maps & Video Tutorials

• Russian crop calendar has been split into 6 separate ones
• Analytics color scheme has been modified to conform to NASA GIMMS, Crop Explorer, and CADRE X-Plot
• New USDA logo has been added
• New MODIS 2019 landcover dataset has been added into the ID and Calculate and Ag. Area Affected tools
• Only year is displayed on timeslider for historical hazards that are aggregated by year
• Ag. Area Affected tool tutorial video has been rerecorded with audio
• New Story Map and video tutorials section has been added under "View Other Useful Resources Page"
• Updated ID & Calculate tool to ignore all croplands and mask layers
• User alerts for loading wrong PDC layers have been added
• Ag Profile requests that fail will be resubmited to improve reliability

New Datasets

• 2019 MODIS landcover has been added as new 500m landcover dataset

Bug Fixes

• Wording of metadata for the query of weather/climate datasets has been changed
• Undesired attributes have been removed from historical hazard pop-ups
• Bookmarked Ag Area Affected results revert to the desired temporal data when referring to the "earliest" available data
• Labels of non-cropland masks have been modified in the legend
• The legend of MODIS PASG layer has been corrected

• All historical disaster pop-up links are clickable
• Year attribute is used for historical earthquake pop-ups with null quake_date attribute
• All ag lands layers load above NDVI layers
• Average Temperature Departure Section is above GFS Forecast Section
• Temperature and Precipitation layer sources have been reordered in the Table of Contents
• SMOS and SMAP dataset and charting are only visible internally
• Western Sahara has been changed to Morocco in GADM datasets
• 500m croplands is deactivated when an NDVI layer is loaded
• Test code has been completed for data visualization, legend visualization and bookmarking

New Datasets

• 2021 tropical cyclone layer from IPAD's TCM has been added
• MODIS Percent Average Seasonal Greenness (PASG) has been added
• NOAA CPC SPI and CHIRPS SPI pentad, dekad and rolling datasets have been added
• NOAA CPC Rainfall Rank and CHIRPS Rainfall Rank datasets have been added

Bug Fixes

• Earthquakes Impacts and Losses (Pager Alerts) layer has been fixed
• Using Bookmark Tool after running Ag Area Affected tool with data prior to the most recent dataset will not default to most recent visualization
• Using Bookmark tool with Raster Difference tool port results
• Bookmarked page loads data layers in the same order
• Wording of metadata for weather/climate datasets has been updated
• Source for Agriculture Percent GDP in Ag Profile is present
• Office of Global Analysis haas been changed to Global Market Analysis in the Director's Message

• 300m landcover data has been added to the Identify and Calculate tool and Ag. Area Affected tool
• Automated test suites have been created for Ag. Area Affected tool, Ag. Profile tool, Identify and Calculate tool, and Raster Difference tool
• Timeslider has been activated for Historical Tsunami, Historical Floods, and Historical Earthquakes.
• Video of how to use the Ag. Area Affected tool has been added to the Story Map
• The Ag. Area Affected tool tutorial video has been added to the blue "i" icon in the Ag. Area Affected tool pane

New Datasets

• USAF 10km 7x data has been added to Map and Dashboard Analytics
• USAF 10km 7x gridcell has been added to the Table of Contents

Bug Fixes

• Raster Difference tool menu has been edited to ensure only sources available can be selected
• Ag. Area Affected tool works for all variables
• Ag. Area Affected tool allows for "Current Extent" drawing option
• MODIS ETL scripts have been fixed to allow for data analytic data updates
• Historical Storm Rainfall and Winds are showing up in the legend
• Temperature graphs in the Ag. Profile tool get exported to the PDF
• Freehand Polygon drawing option works with ID and Calculate Tool
• MapBox Basemap has been removed from basemap ist
• PDC live map in the story map has been recreated because of expired token

• Intelligent messaging has been added to Ag Profile
• Performance of GFSAD dataset has been improved
• Precipitation and temperature GFS forecast metadata
• Historical cyclone popups have been created
• A link to the changelog has been added to the welcome screen

New Datasets

• Climatology data for Ag Profile charting has been updated to WorldClim version 2

Bug Fixes

• Broken metadata links for Heat Damage Days dataset have been fixed
• Area of Interest is checked before ID and Calculate tool is executed
• Broken data links for PDC Historical Hazards and Events have been fixed
• ID and Calculate tool run with 10km dataset produces accurate results

• ID capability has been added to Raster Difference resulting raster
• Maximum records returned for CPC SPI services go back to beginning of record
• Performance improvements of GADAS have been incorporated
• ESA 2018 datasets have new legend

Bug Fixes

• Downloading data from map analytics as a csv has been fixed
• One of the land cover datasets is automatically enabled when ID and Calculate tool is opened
• States and counties layer legends have a hollow symbol in the legend
• ESA 2018 datasets have nearest neighbor interpolation
• USAF 10km 7x raster datasets have been hidden from Production

• ESI 300m landcover and Ag Lands data layers metadata
• Legend of maximum temperature and extreme maximum temperature have been modified
• Performance of GADAS upon loading has been enhanced

New Datasets

• New subregions have been added to Dashboard Analytics

Bug Fixes

• Satellite import functionality in map comparison view has been fixed
• Tropical cyclone cone of uncertainty layers have been removed
• Export functionality works with basemaps
• Ag Area Affected Tool works with NDVI datasets

• Legal constraints to the downloading of WMO data has been added to its metadata
• Dashboard analytics has been hooked into the database re-architecture
• 30m forest landcover dataset metadata
• 30m pasture landcover dataset metadata

New Datasets

• CPC SPI dataset has been replaced with new dataset
• 300m ESA CCI landcover dataset
• New subregions to have been added to Dashboard Analytics

Bug Fixes

• "NASA Microwave" has been changed to "NASA SMOS" for the soil moisture products
• World Imagery basemap broken thumbnail has been fixed
• Scale dependency in WMO station layers has been fixed
• Gazetteer spelled correctly in Table of Contents
• GADAS Feedback form points to GMA.GADAS@usda.gov
• Ag Area Affected requests using a circle has been fixed
• Tropical cyclones Saffir-Simpson layer has been fixed

• Database re-architecture has been incorporated
• SPI Rainfall and SPI Drought legends updated to not have any "No Data" or "Other" classes
• SPAM metadata updated
• Revised SMAP metadata added
• Edited z value of NDVI datasets so they always appear above crop layers

Bug Fixes

• Dates in WMO map analytic queries display correctly

• Add a central America region to automatically zoom to
• Changed some country names to conform to FAS standards
• Edited z value so countries layer will appear above states layer when loaded
• Edited z value so historical cyclones layer appears above ocean mask

New Datasets

• Added average temperature maps for WMO
• Added average temperature Departure maps for USAF and WMO

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where normal lines were not appearing in admin queries when selecting CHIRPS or IMERG on Dashboard Analytics

• Intelligent messages have been added to Id & Calc and Ag Area Affected Tool for users to see progress of tool
• Removed defunct services from arcgis.pdc.org
• Removed MPA services from the precipitation category

New Datasets

• FAS offices file has been updated with current locations
• Historical tropical cyclone rain, tracks, and winds from 2018
• 2020 Tropical Cyclones from the Tropical Cyclone Monitor
• SMAP data added to Map and Dashboard Analytics
• Crop calendars updated
• Changed Myanmar to Burma in all cases
• Updated SPAM metadata

Bug Fixes

• Map Analytics was not showing a chart when all results from query were 0
• Metadata link for Ag Lands 30m Rice was returning a 403 error
• Dashboard analytics was returning the same country multiple times when you select state or district
• ID and Calc and Ag Area Affected Tools were not returning correct results when selecting states along a coastline

• Precipitation Departure metadata
• GFS forecast metadata
• SMAP metadata

New Datasets

• GFSAD 30m data
• U.S. Watches and Warnings updates to Esri Atlas data
• SPAM 2010 crops and non-cropland masks have been updated
• SPAM 2010 rice production legend has been updated
• Precipitation normal legend has been updated

Bug Fixes

• Contact email address for FAS Global Market Analysis fixed

• FAS IPAD logo changed to include Global Market Analysis
• Descriptions for raster difference tool and user file upload tool have been modified

New Datasets

• SMAP data has been added to GADAS layers
• EU country specific production and harvested data has been added to Ag. Profile tool

Bug Fixes

• U.S Wildfires, U.S Watches and U.S Warning URL have been replaced
• Cell value descriptions for SPI raster layers in Identify and Calculate tool have been modified to reflect legend change
• Projection shift in exported images has been fixed

New Datasets

• NASA Evaporative Stress Index (4-Week and 12-Week)
• Metadata for NASA Evaporative Stress Index
• New state and provincial boundary GADM layer
• New normals for CMORPH, MPA, USAF data have been added to analytics and charts
• New CHIPRS and GPM normals have been added to Dashboard Analytics
• SPAM 2010

Bug Fixes

• State and provincial layer shows at all zoom level
• The info icon on the User File Upload Tool has a description

• Transparency of the LIS Grids is reduced when admin units is selected in Map Analytics Tool
• New SPI legend has been implemented and modified to cover more possible maximum values

New Datasets

• WMO Version 2 data has been added to both map display and charting

Bug Fixes

• Default colors can be changed in Map Analytics if both imports and exports are charted
• Raster Difference Tool calculation for high resolution datasets and large areas has been fixed

• Data in CSV format can be downloaded from Map Analytics and Dashboard Analytics
• Sentinel 2 data is available in the Satellite Imagery tool
• Metadata for Tropical Cyclone from Kinetic Analysis Corporation is available for viewing

Bug Fixes

• Precipitation erroneously getting plotted when cumulative precipitation with multiple sources are selected in dashboard analytics has been fixed
• Tropical cyclone legend from Kinetic Analysis Corporation has been fixed

• Front end changes have been made to point PS&D functionality to slave database
• Ag Area Affected tool has been redesigned to use a geoprocessing tool
• Metadata point of contact information has been updated to Lisa Colson
• USDA FAS Logo has been added to the bottom of the Table of Contents
• ID and Calculate Tool uses a geoprocessing tool that uses AWS Services for calculations
• Raster Difference Tool has been upgraded to combine the individual difference results tools to one
• Date-reading scripts that generated the dates in the Table of Contents have been modified to read off specific servers

Bug Fixes

• Selecting a new draw shape (circle, rectangle, freehand) on Ag Area Affected Tool or ID and Calculate Tool does not remove all previously drawn shapes
• Satellite Imagery can be exported

• Metadata for Irrigated Croplands, Landcover Geocover 30m and Ports have been added

New Datasets

• GPM IMERG and CHIRPS data have been added to dashboard analytics for administrative regions

Bug Fixes

• X-Axis for Map Analytics and Dashboard Analytics bar charts is dynamically set based upon negative values
• GPM IMERG Gridcells have been verified
• When running Map Analytics tool, cleared areas do not get processed

• Users have ability to view KML files
• Point button activates when Political Mask tool is opened
• A percent complete indicator has been added to the Identify and Calculate tool
• User interface for the Satellite Options tab in the Satellite Imagery tool has been redesigned
• Exported images that contain georeferenced information can be properly opened in ArcMap
• Satellite analysis aerial results can be exported

New Datasets

• Tropical Cyclone Monitor data has been added and PDC Historical Tropical Cyclones have been removed
• GPM IMERG and CHIRPS data are available in Map Analytics
• Average USAF 557th WW Temperature has been added to Map Analytics and Dashboard Analytics

Bug Fixes

• Raster difference results appear above any other rasters that are on the map
• Latest date display for single time slider data layers, e.g. GFS Rainfall Forecast, has been fixed.
• Exported charts do not have FAS logo at full width
• PS&D chart export background does not cut before FAS logo
• Supervised classification allows for more than one polygon per training class
• Landsat 8 URL has been replaced with a more consistent one, also from ESRI
• Supervised classification in the Satellite Imagery tool has been improved to match computed areas to user views
• Satellite view of supervised classification has been limited to one view extent
• Ag. Profile pages do not break up headers from their content

• Users have the ability to upload any shapefile for viewing
• Users have the ability to upload shapes when performing supervised classification
• The latest available date of a layer is shown in the Table of Contents
• Latitude and Longitude coordinates of the mouse cursor are shown beside the time slider
• Title and font size can be editedf or the legend and axis labels for charts
• More information about data sources have been added to the Identify and Calculate results box
• Training areas are kept as well when bookmarking supervised classification
• "Do not Export" button has been removed from export pop-up
• Metadata for Percent Soil Moisture has been added

New Datasets

• PDC Historical Cyclones 2016
• Average Temperature USAF 557th WW

Bug Fixes

• Time slider marker moves to the end of the slider when month-to-date is chosen after another time aggregation
• NDVI charting is working in Map Analytics
• Ag Area Affected tool works for SPI Drought and SPI Rainfall layers
• Results display for CMORPH 6-Month in Ag Area Affected tool
• Ag Area Affected tool results for 500m crop Ag Lands can be exported
• Right Y axis tick marks show up when all commodities graphed on the right side have zero values

• FAS logo added to all exported images
• Dashboard analytics user interface redesigned for easier use
• Style editor font dropdown has been redesigned for easier use
• An email can be sent to OGA IPAD using "Contact Us" under "Info"
• Commodity Statistics Analytics: User can now export the graph data in csv or excel format
• Satellite Imagery tool: You can now bookmark your Supervised Classification, Unsupervised Classification, and Water Index layers under the Analysis section of Satellite Imagery
• Metadata has been added for USAF Surface Soil Moisture and Sub-Surface Soil Moisture
• New legend has been created for MODIS NDVI Anomaly

Bug Fixes

• Labels do not automatically come on for boundaries in Map Analytics
• Ag Area Affected tool does not crash on Coastal Admin Units
• FAS logo has been added to Ag profile landcover legend image export
• Ag Area Affected tool export does not truncate results
• Line and Bar chart option in commodity analytics displays both line and bar chart
• Map Analytics only grab data from inside the range that the user selects
• ID and Calc / Ag. Area Affected Tool 10km data computation mismatch has been fixed
• In Ag Area Affected tool, where freehand geometries caused the calculations to be incorrect has been fixed

• When using the Commodity Statistics Analytics tool, the user can now select an option to include both line and bar charting in a chart, reorder country data in a chart, and can modify color and width of chart lines
• A Story Map is now available on the GADAS splash screen
• Population data used in GADAS has been precomputed to enhance accuracy and performance when using tools such as Identify and Calculate

New Datasets

• Forest Mask 30m
• Pasture Mask 30m

Bug Fixes

• In Map Analytics, users can now perform queries using WMO station data
• City labels now display when the Cities (Scale-dependent) layer is loaded
• Satellite Imagery tabs for Analysis and Settings can now be bookmarked

• The Identify and Calculate tool now returns cell values for point selections made on the map when Average Seasonal Rainfall rasters are displayed
• On the Agricultural Profile, the user can now toggle between viewing the legends for the NGA and NLCD land use maps when the selected area includes the US and another country (e.g., Canada, Mexico)
• When exporting an Agricultural Profile, a legend is now exported for the NGA and NLCD land use maps

New Datasets

• Forest 30m
• Pasture 30m

Bug Fixes

• Bookmarking a map view now retains any changes made using the Style Editor tool
• The Identify and Calculate tool now retrieves the name and ID number of WMO stations selected using the point tool
• Exporting a map no longer fails when the Wind Speed Animation or Wind Speed Heat Map layer are loaded
• The Political Mask tool now works in GADAS Map Analytics

• Web form is available in GADAS Info section for users to submit issues and feedback
• Release version of GADAS has been added to splash screen
• Changelog has been added to Info section

New Datasets

• Weather: USAF 557th WW Precipitation – backfilled to year Jan 2003
• Weather: USAF 557th WW Maximum/Minimum Temperature – backfilled to year 2003
• Vegetation Index: MODIS NDVI and NDVI Anomaly – backfilled to year 2002

Bug Fixes

• PS&D Tool name changed to "Commodity Statistics Analysis"
• Commodity Statistics Analysis charts now dynamically adjust to Y-axis
• Political Mask Tool now works for features that have a special character in their name
• Metadata has been added for Average Rainfall category
• US wildfires metadata link fixed
• PDC metadata links have been updated