Fodar News

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 [...]

Outside magazine published an article yesterday on fodar and the future topographic change detection.   Click here to read the article.  

I returned today after another blitzkreig mapping mission to support long-term studies of Arctic permafrost and glacier melt in response to a changing climate, flying 20 hours out of 34 while [...]

I returned today from a short but intense trip to the Arctic, flying 25 out of 52 hours to acquire 22,000 photos, mapping about 100 miles of the Dalton Highway and Sagavanirktok River near [...]

Today we delivered data acquired for the Alaska Department of Transportation near Valdez and in Fairbanks, and found that their validation data showed what we have always found — it just [...]

Our paper on determining the highest mountain in the US Arctic using fodar was published today in the journal The Cryosphere.  The paper settles the issue of which peak is highest, resulting from [...]

From Fairbanks to Valdez, this week Fairbanks Fodar has mapped a lot of pavement. Earlier this month we got a few contracts from the Alaska Department of Transportation, following up on the [...]