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Archaeological Results from NCALM Data Presented at SAA Annual Meeting

Archaeological Results from NCALM LiDAR Data Presented at the Society for American Archeology (SAA) 79th Annual Meeting held in Austin, TX, April 23-27, 2014: Results from airborne LiDAR…
NCALM Completes LiDAR Survey of New Zealand’s Marlborough Fault System

A three-person NCALM field team was deployed to New Zealand between March 6 and March 24, 2014, to perform an airborne LiDAR survey of five fault segments of the Marlborough Fault System (…
New Zealand Partners
Optics & Photonics News Article Discusses LiDAR Use in Archaeology

The Optical Society of America's monthly magazine, Optics & Photonics News, featured an article about LiDAR and archeological work, with a focus on studies completed in Belize, Cambodia…
LiDAR Image of Caracol, Belize
Latest J-STARS Cover Features NCALM Images

Stunning images from NCALM data were featured on the cover of IEEE J-STARS. This most recent NCALM publication presents results from a new topography/bathymetry system – and demonstrates…
Latest J-STARS Cover Features NCALM Images
Kimberly Blisniuk Receives 2013 Kurt Frankel Award

Kimberly Blisniuk, from the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California, Berkeley, was presented with the University of Houston/RIEGL USA Kurt Frankel Award. The award…
Kimberly Blisniuk
Taylor Perron Receives 2013 Kenneth Clinton "Clint" Slatton Award

Taylor Perron, the Cecil and Ida Green Assistant Professor of Geology, in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, MIT, was presented with the University of Houston/…
Taylor Perron
Oman Ophiolites Mapped Using LiDAR

University of Houston researchers, from the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, recently traveled to Oman to map famous ophiolites. NCALM was heavily involved in the project,…
Oman Ophiolites Mapped Using LiDAR
Glennie Receives NSF Grant

The National Science Foundation has granted Dr. Craig Glennie and collaborators a $300,000 grant to develop a real-time change detection system, using LiDAR data, for disaster response.…
NCALM Researcher Featured in The Verge

A popular web-publication, The Verge, featured an online article with Dr. William Carter about NCALM's work finding archeological ruins in rainforests. View the article here.
NCALM Work Highlighted in The New Yorker

The New Yorker featured an article reviewing archeological work completed using NCALM-collected data. The article, titled "The El Dorado Machine," can be found here.