Fodar News

Our peer-reviewed paper on mapping snow depths was recently published in the journal “The Cryosphere”.  To my knowledge, there is no better way to measure the depth of snow on [...]

Another good day of weather led to 9 hours of flying and 8880 photos covering 860 miles of flight lines, including all of the coast from Golovin Bay to Stebbins. The early morning showed fog over [...]

After nearly a week of waiting for the weather to break, today the clouds lifted and I was able to map the coast from Unalakleet to Golovin Bay, in a 9 hour flight capturing 7900 photos. The past [...]

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 [...]