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 ...

These autonomous flying robots could also be used to create detailed maps and three-dimensional ... reliance on prior ...

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 ...

Lidar technology is commonly used to map archaeological landscapes blocked by dense vegetation, but it has additional value where vegetation is sparse, such as the mountains of Uzbekistan.

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 ...