Lidar is very good at mapping trees in addition to mapping ground ... The Maya culture survived, and today many people ...

Tulane researchers uncovered over 6,500 Maya structures in Mexico using lidar, revealing a complex settlement landscape and ...

A PhD student discovers a public dataset on 'page 16 of a Google search' that helps uncover a major urban center once home to 50,000 people in 800 AD.

The technique, using thousands of laser pulses sent from a plane, can detect variations in topography that are not evident to ...

Funders are often reluctant to invest in lidar surveys in areas where there is no visible evidence of Mayan settlement, despite the fact that this civilization reached its peak between 250 and 900 AD.

An archaeology student discovered a major Mayan civilization hidden under the Mexican jungle using a LiDAR dataset he stumbled upon during a Google search. “I was on something like page 16 of [a ...

An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest.The data came from laser scans ...

It also serves as a stepping stone in our understanding of the Mayan urbanization and settlement patterns. The city was discovered by chance through Lidar, or Light Detection and Ranging.

There, among the data in a 2013 airborne LiDAR study—a process of mapping the earth by firing lasers from an airplane—was a vast and previously unknown Mayan city. The city has been buried ...