Fodar News

For the past six months, I have been working Todd Smith at AGI to build a better virtual globe.  Their technology, Cesium, is an open source 3D virtual globe viewer written in HTML5, such that no [...]

Yesterday our paper on snow depth measurements was published in The Cryosphere Discussions.  You can find it here http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/9/333/2015/tcd-9-333-2015.html In short, we [...]

My plane had a flat tire on Sunday, so I took the opportunity to collect some ground control points (GCPs) around the ramp to compare to maps I had made there previously.  I was a bit concerned [...]

Less than a week after acquisition, AK DGGS’ Coastal Hazards program received their DEMs and orthos of Unalakleet and Shaktoolik. The DEMs were as beautiful as ever.  This time we were [...]

Though my launch was delayed from Fairbanks due to fog and rain, I was able to sneak out about 9AM to head west.  It was a strong headwind all the way, soI didn’t get to Unalakleet until [...]

Fairbanks Fodar latest project is measuring coastal erosion between Unalakleet and Golovin for the AK Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys.  This area gets hit hard each year with storm [...]

Today we launched our new website!  Follow us on Twitter @fairbanksfodar.  Please let us know if you come across any quirks!  Many thanks to Steve at web907.com for the help!