Technology enables scientists to measure and discover things that would be impossible to find without it, like these lost ...

With these major obstacles in mind, the GAP created a complete map of the site by conducting a lidar scan in December 2022, given that it is a tested and trusted archaeological approach to large-scale ...

Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...

"It would have taken us a decade to map such large sites manually." Frachetti and graduate students in his Spatial Analysis, Interpretation, and Exploration (SAIE) Lab compiled the drone-lidar ...

Scientists were surprised to find a medieval metropolis atop mountains, providing new insights into life along the ancient trade ... detailed 3-dimensional maps. Lidar scans reveal the city ...

FOR the longest time, archaeologists forever in search of lost civilisations used to walk the earth, and map and dig areas where they believed ancient ... archaeological sites today, so much ...

Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology ... hidden by vegetation Create detailed three-dimensional maps of ancient settlements Analyze spatial relationships between structures ...

Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA As airborne lidar surveys reveal a ... thus not subject to ...

NEW ORLEANS — Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology detected what may be an ancient ... detected in LiDAR images covering an area of about 47 square miles. The technique maps landscapes ...

Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology have detected what may be an ancient ... in LiDAR images covering an area of about 47 square miles (122 square kilometers). The technique maps ...

By August Roberts Researchers from Tulane University in Louisiana uncovered the site using high-tech laser scanning. They ...

In 2009, archaeologists Diane and Arlen Chase of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, pioneered the use of lidar to map a Mayan city, revolutionizing the way ancient civilizations are detected and ...