• Over the next thirty years, temperatures in the corn belt of the US are expected to rise more than seven degrees Fahrenheit, moving the center of corn production hundreds of miles from where it is today. • Abigail Fitzgibbon shares her research to demonstrate what could happen to agricultural production because of climate change, using the raster analysis functions in ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online. • Start with the readily available and authoritative bioclimate, elevation and landcover raster layers in the Living Atlas of the World to perform at-scale analysis with raster functions in a cloud environment to understand how climate change affects agriculture in the United States. • With more than 150 different functions out of the box, advanced raster analytics can be run to understand corn suitability without writing a line of code. These functions can also be strung together and combined to develop raster models tailored to specific questions – in this case, development of a corn production suitability map.
• Analysis across the entire country was run at scale to visualize where areas of corn production would be most impacted by climate change. This allows corn producers to identify areas where they can adapt to climate change today and mitigate its effects tomorrow.