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Last week I flew two long days and acquired a lot of data.  I’ve since processed and delivered all of it. You can visit Fodar Earth to view the data in the 3D, but here are a few [...]

After eight days on standby, the weather finally cooperated and we had two big days on the north slope of Alaska — 19 hours of flying, 7 projects, and over 8,000 photos totaling 350 [...]

I spent a beautiful morning mapping the Denali Park Road yesterday. The weather was stunning, not a cloud in the sky and hardly a trace of wind.  I launched from Fairbanks about 6 AM to beat the [...]

Two coastal mapping projects from last summer have recently been published.  Both papers were presented last week at the prestigous Coastal Sediments conference, which occurs every 4 years since [...]

For the past six months, I have been working Todd Smith at AGI to build a better virtual globe.  Their technology, Cesium, is an open source 3D virtual globe viewer written in HTML5, such that no [...]

Yesterday our paper on snow depth measurements was published in The Cryosphere Discussions.  You can find it here http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/9/333/2015/tcd-9-333-2015.html In short, we [...]

My plane had a flat tire on Sunday, so I took the opportunity to collect some ground control points (GCPs) around the ramp to compare to maps I had made there previously.  I was a bit concerned [...]

Less than a week after acquisition, AK DGGS’ Coastal Hazards program received their DEMs and orthos of Unalakleet and Shaktoolik. The DEMs were as beautiful as ever.  This time we were [...]

Though my launch was delayed from Fairbanks due to fog and rain, I was able to sneak out about 9AM to head west.  It was a strong headwind all the way, soI didn’t get to Unalakleet until [...]