Rather having herds of explorers clamber around in the upper reaches of these forests to take measurements, researchers decided to use LiDAR to create a 3D map of these forests (press release).

Lidar scans further showed these 6,000 mounds ... read about two other lost cities uncovered in Bolivia’s rainforest. Or, learn about the 14th-century villages found in the Amazon that were ...

The 2,000-year-old site contains some 6,000 earthen platforms connected by ancient roads, also visible to the laser technology, called lidar. Though some of the structures were noticed as early as ...

Lidar — short for “light detection and ... a band that loops along the south of the rainforest and contains much of its destruction. Last summer, as a historic number of fires burned through ...

but it has the potential of modifying the land so that we may never know what history could have been hidden under the rainforest. Lidar image of Ciudad Perdida (Courtesy of NV5)How much of the ...

Swallowed by the rainforest, this lost urban center contained ... The survey used light detection and ranging (lidar) technology, a remote-sensing method that sends thousands of laser pulses ...

The company hopes that its AI models can help to reveal new evidence of a lost civilization in one of the world's most ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest that dates back to the 18th century. The Portuguese settlement previously appeared on some maps but its exact location ...

LIDAR was first deployed in the Amazon to assess ... Dark earth is just one clue to how early Amazonians husbanded the rainforest. While the Amazon is home to some 16,000 tree species, a seminal ...

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of an 18th-century Portuguese colonial city hidden beneath the dense vegetation of the Amazon rainforest. The city, previously known only from historical maps ...

Lidar is able to map the ground even through dense rain forest, delineating any archaeological features that might be present. When the images were processed, they revealed unnatural features ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...