The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...

Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

Archaeologists have used laser technology to map a 100-km (62-mile) Maya stone road that could have been built 1,300 years ago to help with the invasion of an isolated city in modern-day Mexico. The ...

The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) will be using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) to improve road construction efficiency and safety around the state, according to report in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, archaeologists have used drone-based lidar technology in Central Asia to uncover stunning details of two newly ...

GRAND FORKS — Farmers, watershed managers and others with an interest now have easy access to precise information on land elevations and similar data in the Minnesota portion of the Red River Basin ...

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...

The geometric analysis and mapping of road alignments is a multidisciplinary field that combines advanced surveying techniques, mathematical modelling and computational algorithms to accurately ...