For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was thought to be a vast, untouched wilderness, inhabited only by scattered hunter-gatherer societies. But cutting-edge Lidar technology has just shattered that ...

Since then he’s thrown the device onto a stepper motor, and now has a clever 2D room mapping machine. He learned how to create the webcam laser range finder from [Todd Danko], a project we ...

Built by the Zapotecs, the true extent of Guiengola, located around 520km south-east of Mexico City, has been revealed with the help of airborne lidar—a laser mapping technology that enables ...