Archaeologists have revealed an ancient lost Mayan city using advanced laser mapping technology, unearthing monumental ...

São Sebastião, a municipality on the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil that was partially cut off from the rest of the ...

Moreover, the mountain terrain ... the study. 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 ...

NASA researchers Guan Yang, Jeff Chen, and their team received the 2024 Innovator of The Year Award at the agency’s Goddard ...

A major Mayan city, named Valeriana, has been uncovered beneath the dense jungles of Mexico, thanks to Lidar technology. The ...

It also plays a key role in water resource management, where terrain modeling can predict flood-prone areas and guide flood mitigation efforts. In defense, the 3D maps generated by LiDAR scanners ...

The depression in the landscape, which McCauley says is clearly visible using LiDAR, “seems to conform reasonably well to the 1897 USGS map. We knew that was about where it had been, but to me ...

A PhD student discovers a public dataset on 'page 16 of a Google search' that helps uncover a major urban center once home to 50,000 people in 800 AD.

The two cities are located in rugged terrain 2,000 to 2,200 meters ... independent culture and political economy." Lidar technology is commonly used to map archaeological landscapes blocked ...