Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, archaeologists have used drone-based lidar technology in Central Asia to uncover stunning details of two newly ...

BOHUNICE, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a settlement dating back some 7,000 years has been mapped with lidar technology at Hrádok, a hill in central Slovakia, by researchers from the ...

The lidar-equipped helicopter used by GEO1 to map Colombia's Ciudad Perdida Courtesy of NV5 Tashbulak and Tugunbulak may be largely forgotten today, but the pair of Uzbekistani cities thrived during ...

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christopher Hernandez, Loyola University Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) Picture an ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, ...

Christopher Hernandez received funding from the National Science Foundation (grant number SPRF 1715009) for the lidar work in Puerto Bello Metzabok. Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at ...