In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For ...

In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For ...

We were able to identify the layout of the streets of this city, which was also a fascinating discovery,” Eduardo Neves, director of the University of São Paulo’s Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lidar—laser technology that digitally removes ... and narco-traffickers who are laying siege to the second largest remaining tropical rainforest in the Americas. Many Guatemalans fear that ...

Lidar images of the site at Cotoca, in Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia. The site had radial roads, moats and ramparts, terraces and monumental cones. Image courtesy of Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

These urban centers, hidden beneath dense rainforest vegetation and uncovered using LiDAR technology, revealed an advanced and thriving pre-Columbian civilization in an area previously thought to have ...

Lidar data, especially from NASA’s GEDI mission that’s deployed on the ISS and maps forests from space, have been crucial to understanding forest biomass in the Amazon Rainforest and studying ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost Portuguese settlement from the 18th century in the Amazon Rainforest using LiDAR technology. Credits: Andre Deak, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists ...

With the IoF™, ONE AMAZON aims to digitally connect and safeguard every hectare of the rainforest ... satellite-based LiDAR, and advanced bio-sensing to track deforestation, biodiversity ...