Lidar is fast becoming one of the most influential tools in archaeology, revealing things in a few hours that might have taken months of machete wielding and manual measurements otherwise. The latest ...

Excavations and airborne mapping at a previously unknown site in Mexico, called Aguada Fénix, have uncovered the oldest and largest known structure ... turned to lidar to peer through forests ...

Lidar technology uses pulses ... which helps build a 3D map of the structure. [Images: One-of-a-Kind Places on Earth] After the first scan, the device is then moved to a different location in ...

See a LIDAR design on an aerial drone here. The LIDAR scan, able to map the ground even through a dense ... methodology was fundamentally changed when daily aerial and terrestrial ...

These devices use LiDAR lasers to scan the environment around them, getting a more accurate picture of how the area is shaped and what objects they're near. Modern electronics are bristling with ...

But finding bumps on the ground under the canopy of a rainforest is far from easy, so in 2019 they set out to scan the area by helicopter, using lidar to reconstruct the contours of the surface ...