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

LiDAR can generate topographic maps like these using eye-safe Er-doped fiber 1550 nm lasers. Image Credit: Avantier Inc. For underwater and bathymetry applications, a laser with good transmission ...

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 ...

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, playing a strategic role in trade and iron production.

LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, is a  remote sensing technology that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to ...