The use of lidar is revolutionizing Maya archaeology ... the telltale marks of looters, loggers, land-grabbers, and narco-traffickers who are laying siege to the second largest remaining tropical ...

The city features all the hallmarks of a Maya political capital ... three long strips of land and three larger rectangular ...

Laser technology known as LiDAR digitally removes the forest canopy to reveal ancient ruins below, showing that Maya cities such ... trespassers burn and clear land for agriculture and human ...

It has allowed scientists to scan large swaths of land from the comfort of a ... ongoing debates about the true extent of Maya settlements. "Because lidar allows us to map large areas very quickly ...

Conducted in 2013 as part of the Alianza project to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation, this Lidar survey ...

LiDAR sensors are used in professional and scientific settings all the time, but why have them on a smartphone? Turns out, ...

Lidar has revealed general features of interconnected Maya cities and extensive rural ... equal access to market products and agricultural land. New rulers who aligned themselves with powerful ...

"There was an assumption that maybe this land was just not suitable ... to revise their estimates of the Maya population in 2018, following a round of lidar mapping work in Guatemala.

Discovering Maya cities used to involve bushwhacking through the jungle, schlepping gear and sidestepping snakes. And over the course of his career, Professor Marcello Canuto has done plenty of that.

This discovery underscores the fact that much of the Maya civilization remains unknown to archaeologists. The team surveyed 50 square miles of land in Campeche using technology called lidar ...

The uplands provided a source for limestone, their primary building material, and dry land to live on ... Researchers have previously used lidar to scan Maya sites in Guatemala.

lidar technology allows scientists to scan large swaths of land from the comfort of an office, uncovering anomalies in the landscape that often prove to be pyramids, family houses and other Maya ...