Fodar News

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 [...]

We mapped the tallest mountain in North America last weekend!  This blog tells the tale of how a family of three made the best map ever of Denali, almost on a whim.  The scientific side of this [...]

This blog consolidates a number of studies that have been done to assess fodar accuracy and precision, as well as reviews some related terminology and concepts that I think are important.  [...]

After a busy summer mapping in Alaska,  I headed south, really far south — to Botswana! This story begins one day last year while I was watching a documentary about the Okavango Delta and [...]

It was a busy summer at Fairbanks Fodar, flying over 25,000 miles in total, and given the work in hand already for 2017 it seemed reasonable to invest in new aircraft and improved mapping [...]

It’s been a busy year for Fairbanks Fodar.  This blog gives an overview of how I’ve spent much of my past two summer vacations, which, especially given my new-found employment status, [...]

This week we completed acquisition of data for the entire west coastline of Alaska, mapping over 2000 miles of beach from Icy Cape in the north to Platinum in the south, a length longer than the [...]

Today we delivered three projects to the National Park Service’s Arctic Network related to understanding the impacts of climate change on the Arctic Landscape.  The data I show below is [...]

Earlier this summer we acquired data from about 5000 square kilometers of Denali National Park and Preserve, about 1/5 of its area, and we now we have some preliminary results to share. The [...]

I spent my 50th birthday documenting and measuring landscape change in the Arctic as part of projects that began 60 years ago or more, giving me occasion to reflect on where I’ve been and [...]