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Since my arrival in Unalakleet the weather has deteriorated.  Yesterday brought consistently low ceilings throughout Norton Sound, with winds increasing as the day wore on.  This morning I woke [...]

In less than a week from signing a contract with the State to map the entire coastline from Wales to Bethel, we have already made our first map here.  Or rather our second, since I made one here [...]

Fairbanks Fodar was just awarded a huge project by Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources — to map over 2000 miles of coastline in western Alaska. The project is to map a 1.5 km [...]

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 [...]