Laser scans revealed ... phase of the PACUNAM LiDAR Initiative, a three-year project that will eventually map more than 5,000 square miles (14,000 square kilometers) of Guatemala’s lowlands ...

Researchers have previously used lidar to scan Maya sites in Guatemala. In 2015, an initiative called the Mirador Basin Project conducted two large-scale surveys of the southern portion of the ...

(Laser scans reveal Maya megalopolis beneath ... Archaeologists thought they knew Tikal well, but lidar revealed that Guatemala’s largest Maya city was at least four times as large as previously ...

Researchers have previously used lidar to scan Maya sites in Guatemala. In 2015, an initiative called the Mirador Basin Project conducted two large-scale surveys of the southern portion of the ...