For All Eternity
TED Radio Hour
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Discovering Ancient Cities with LiDAR Technology
This chapter explores how LiDAR technology has been used to discover and map ancient cities like Angamuco in central Mexico and the City of the Jaguar in Honduras. It discusses the importance of LiDAR scans as a record of these cities before they are lost, as well as the Earth Archive project, which aims to create a high-resolution dataset of the entire planet using LiDAR scanning. The chapter also highlights the role of LiDAR in protecting cultural and ecological treasures, such as the burial grounds and ancient village sites in Southeast Alaska.
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