This lidar map of downtown Yaxuna reveals many ancient houses, platforms, palaces and pyramids that are hidden by vegetation. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...

Auld-Thomas and his fellow researchers have succeeded in mapping the city beneath the jungle thanks to airborne laser scanning, better known as lidar (light detection and ranging), a remote ...

A LiDAR sensor tracks the amount of time each laser pulse takes to return and uses that information to create a three-dimensional map of the environment below. The technique has revolutionized the ...

With the help of a drone-mounted LiDAR scan, archaeologists were able to create a rough topographical map of two mountain-bound cities in Uzbekistan, named Tashbulak and Tugunbulak. The scans show ...

Matt McCauley, a Kirkland-based historian and author, has been combing through publicly accessible online ... using LiDAR, “seems to conform reasonably well to the 1897 USGS map.

US and Uzbekistan-based researchers used drone-based LiDAR — Light Detection and Ranging — to map the archeological sites of the two recently discovered sites in Uzbekistan, which dated back ...