With the help of a drone-mounted LiDAR scan, archaeologists were able to create a rough topographical map of two ...

A LiDAR scan of Guiengola, showing the civic and ceremonial center (left), separated by a defensive wall from the city's commoner areas (right).

And today, in combination with modern technology like LiDAR, it’s allowing researchers to craft a 3D model of the famous shipwreck to study long after the wreckage itself has deteriorated.

In the cross section image above (Figure 1), the yellow points are from a photogrammetry dataset while the points in brown are from a LiDAR scan over the same area. As can be clearly seen, the ...

Archaeologists discovered a vast network of 14th-century villages in the Amazon — and they might be arranged like the cosmos. The stars held important meaning to early Native Amazonians and may ...

From 325 metres away, your eyes can probably distinguish a person’s head from their body – and not much else. But a new laser-based device can create a three-dimensional model of their face.

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered from the computer of a PhD student hundreds of miles away. This is the story of how he did it. The ...

So the LiDAR does that for us, and it’s incredibly accurate—more than 90 percent accurate. Before using LiDAR to map it, we didn’t know where it was. You had to stumble upon it, the old ...