In just over a decade, however, Lidar has allowed researchers to map nearly ten times the area that was previously possible in a century, revealing a vast network of Maya cities across the ...

“For the longest time, our sample of the Maya civilization ... to create intricate 3D maps. Originally used to study clouds (and now heavily used in autonomous cars), lidar’s archaeological ...

A LiDAR scanning system has provided archaeologists with evidence of a sprawling Mayan city that was tucked ... the first phase of a larger project to map much of Guatemala. In all, over 5,000 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Archaeologists using laser-sensing technology detected what may be an ancient Mayan ... in LiDAR images covering an area of about 47 square miles. The technique maps landscapes ...