Fodar News

After the horrendous flooding of the Yukon in 2013 caused by ice jams, I’ve been working on demonstrating the how fodar may help us understand ice jam dynamics, improve predictions of [...]

This past year was a busy one for Fairbanks Fodar, but next year is showing signs of being even busier.  Here is a preview of what’s on the calendar already for 2016.   Mapping [...]

While at AGU a few weeks ago, several people asked me about the original blog posts where I described my initial successes with fodar and the events leading up to it.  These links had been broken [...]

Following our talk at AGU regarding the tallest peak in the US Arctic, a few news articles popped up. Here’s one from National Geographic. And another from our local Fairbanks paper which [...]

Which are the highest peaks in the US Arctic? A glaciologist and a ski mountaineer use Fodar to settle the debate Text by Kit DesLauriers Photos by Andy Bardon Since the beginning of time humans [...]

Today our paper on determining the highest peak in the US Arctic was published in The Cryosphere Discussions and we also released our final results in a talk at the 2015 Fall American Geophysical [...]

Processing over 50,000 photos covering over 1200 square kilometers, we have now finished creating high resolution digital elevation models and orthoimages of all 29 villages from Wales to Bethel [...]

Field acquisitions for the Wales-to-Bethel project ended for the year yesterday with my return to Fairbanks, after spending 40 days in the field, flying 14,262 miles, taking 128,502 photos, [...]

After 4 days of bad weather, today I mapped Chefornik, completing our goal of mapping all of the villages between Wales and Bethel on the west coast of Alaska. After two very productive days [...]

North met South when I mapped the Golden Pixel on Monday, creating a continuous mile-wide swath of imagery from Wales to Cheevak, in a 24-hour mapping marathon taking advantage of a 36 hour [...]