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Laser Mapping Reveals New Details of Earth's Surface
Scientific American – Katherine Harmon
Scientists get a three-dimensional Google Earth on steroids, which can penetrate forest canopies, chart sand dune movement, and more, thanks to radarlike lasers.
Maya Exploration
University of Central Florida
A team of UCF scientists use a new lidar sensing system to see through the jungle to explore an ancient Maya city in Belize.
Terrestrial Laser Scanning and the Post Mortem Interval
LiDAR News Magazine – Sibyl R. Bucheli, Craig L. Glennie, and Aaron M. Lynne
Remote sensing technologies have recently emerged in forensics as a way to investigate clandestine graves and crimes scenes, as methods tend to be both nondestructive and noninvasive.