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As of July 26, not only are the winter 2018 seismic tracks still visible at Pt Thompson, the depressions they left behind are still measurable topographically with fodar.  I believe that it is [...]

In a little over a month after my first flight, I’ve now completed about 95% of acquisitions of the best topographic map ever made of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s 1002 Area, [...]

Week Two of my mapping efforts in the 1002 Area ended with acquisitions about 33% complete, covering ~2000 km2 at 5″ resolution by taking ~50,000 photos in ~7000 miles of flying.  My goal [...]

Last Sunday (24 June 2018), on my first day of creating the best topographic map ever made of the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, I was fortunate to find that seismic [...]

Turner and I spent a long weekend in Talkeetna, attending the 8th Annual Talkeetna Fly In, and used the opportunity to test some new fodar upgrades as well as participate in an opportunistic [...]

This blog will hopefully go a long way towards dispelling the myth that fodar cannot be used to measure ground topography beneath a tree canopy.  Whether it is the best tool for the job depends [...]

Last week Turner and I began our 2018 field season in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by mapping about 20 glaciers there on a beautiful, sunny day.  Our hope for the rest of the season is to [...]

There are a lot of remote, beautiful places in Alaska that we would like to map to assist a variety of useful public purposes, as Alaska is not mapped nearly as well as the rest of the country.  [...]

There are a lot of remote, beautiful places in Alaska that we would like to map to assist a variety of useful public purposes, as Alaska is not mapped nearly as well as all of the other States.  [...]

On Sunday, 8 April 2018, we used fodar to map Denali, the tallest mountain in North America.  This blog analyzes the quality of that map and its significance.  The methods and discussion are [...]