Fodar News

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.  [...]

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, [...]