Archaeologists working across the Americas and Southeast Asia are finding that airborne laser scanning, known as LiDAR, is ...

Researchers used airborne laser mapping to peer through the dense canopy to find the 1,000-year-old settlement on the Yucatán peninsula.

No audio available for this content. From left: Esri Program Manager Doug Morgenthaler, Laser Technology Sr. Product Manger Derrick Reish and Eos CTO Jean-Yves Lauture. (Photo: Eos Positioning) The ...

Laser-mapping technology and on-the-ground fieldwork have exposed a network of pre-Columbian cities across the Upper Amazon, ...

[Shane Ormonde] recently learned how to measure distance using just a webcam, a laser, and everyone’s favorite math — trigonometry. Since then he’s thrown the device onto a stepper motor, and now has ...

3D Laser Mapping has supplied AngloGold Ashanti with a high tech laser monitoring system, called SiteMonitor, to support mine survey activities and improve safety at the Geita Gold Mine in Tanzania.

Recently, a research group from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has observed periodic electron bunch fringes induced by the femtosecond ...

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The SiteMonitor mine monitoring system, used to improve safety and increase production at mines around the world, is now being offered on flexible lease contracts. The move by 3D Laser Mapping, who ...

Advanced laser mapping has revealed more than 60,000 ancient Mayan structures beneath the jungles of northern Guatemala. Set across dozens of hidden cities, the discoveries include houses, palaces and ...

It was created in the labs at the University of California, Davis -- and it promises to save money and time, while also improving safety for Caltrans surveyors.Mobile Terrestrial Laser System ...

Pictured is iPin, an existing iPhone accessory that turns the smartphone into a laser pointer. Apple is reportedly planning a laser that would record information around the iPhone. Conary Enterprises ...