Validating fodar in the Artic Circle

June 23, 2016 9:34 AM

Tallest Mountain in US Arctic Found Using New Technique A 50 year debate has been settled by collaboration between glaciologist Matt Nolan and champion skier Kit DesLauriers.
posted by Michele in California (12 comments total)

A new mapping technique, known as fodar, has finally settled the debate. At 8,975.1 feet (2,735.6 m), Mount Isto is the tallest peak in the U.S. Arctic

Fact: they were going to change its name to Mount Isnot if Mount Isto had proven not to be the tallest.
posted by resurrexit at 9:44 AM on June 23, 2016 [20 favorites]

Was it not possible to come up with a better name for the technique than fodar?
posted by chimaera at 9:47 AM on June 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

I thought this headline meant the mountain was using a new technique. Way to go, mountain!
posted by agregoli at 10:12 AM on June 23, 2016 [8 favorites]

fodor fodor fodor
posted by beerperson at 10:36 AM on June 23, 2016 [4 favorites]

Note that fodar is not an acronym and is not capitalized, it is simply a convenient portmanteau of ‘foto’ and ‘lidar’, just as ‘lidar’ itself is not an acronym but a portmanteau of ‘light’ and ‘radar’. -- Fairbanks Fodar (Motto: If your topography is changing, we can measure it.)

So, it's a portmanteau of a portmanteau; the infamous portmanTwo.
posted by miguelcervantes at 11:43 AM on June 23, 2016 [18 favorites]

Since posting this, I have found where the study is posted. It is available for free as a PDF here: http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/1245/2016/tc-10-1245-2016-discussion.html
posted by Michele in California at 11:52 AM on June 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

the infamous portmanTwo.

The rollicking "Portman" sequal everyone's been waiting for! Coming to theaters this summer!

(Movie-trailer voice): In a world...where words and concepts are constantly colliding, one man stands ready to double down.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:00 PM on June 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

fodor fodor fodor

FOLD THE DOOR!
posted by prize bull octorok at 1:48 PM on June 23, 2016 [3 favorites]

That's just what the shoggoths want us to think.
posted by Pope Guilty at 4:38 PM on June 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

Matt does a ton of cool photography stuff. Check out his panoramas.
posted by fermion at 6:03 PM on June 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

Was it not possible to come up with a better name for the technique than fodar?

It's fodar for the media.
posted by quinndexter at 10:11 PM on June 23, 2016

Why not “phodar”?

That fits the spelling of the original “photo”, and pho is a delicious Vietnamese dish.
posted by Fongotskilernie at 3:09 AM on June 24, 2016