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Fodar makes 50 billion measurements of snow depth in Arctic Alaska

Learn more about the largest, highest-resolution snow-depth measurement-campaign within Arctic Alaska ever made, in support of a variety of scientific and regulatory needs.

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2020 Fodar Measurements of Snow Depth in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

I just completed making over 20 billion measurements of snow depth over about 1500 square kilometers of tundra and mountains in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — my third year mapping snow on [...]

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I Saw Sea Ice Off the Sea Shore

This past weekend we took on perhaps our most challenging photogrammetric project yet – mapping sea ice 150 miles northeast of Deadhorse during the ICEX 2020 project.

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On the Relationship Between Oil and Snow in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

About a month ago I mapped snow cover of about 1/3 of the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and here I present some initial processing results along with some thoughts on its [...]

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On the intrinsic value of arctic snow cover

While individually processing the tens of thousands of vertical mapping photos from my last trip to the 1002 Area of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, I couldn't help but to linger on the [...]

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The importance of measuring snow and ice in the 1002 Area of the Arctic NWR

I just returned from a few weeks of using fodar to map the snow depth of over 1/3 of the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at 12.5 cm resolution, as well as about 700 square [...]

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First Results from 2018 Botswana Fodar of Elephant Habitats

We spent most of November 2018 in Botswana studying elephant habitats using fodar, expanding on our work in 2017. This blog summarizes our 2018 mapping work from acquisitions to data validation, [...]

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Science in the 1002 Area

Here I share the first processing results of my 1002 Area topographic mapping effort and find these data suitable for measuring topographic change at the centimeter level. I also have a few [...]

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Acquisition of 1002 Area Complete!

This summer I mapped all of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s 1002 Area, as well as all of the glaciers draining into it, covering about 8000 km2 in total. The map resulting from these [...]

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Happy 10/02 Day!

In the global conflict for dominance over the shape of the earth’s surface, plate tectonics has been the clear victor over erosional processes in the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife [...]