Indiana Jones goes geek: Laser-mapping LiDAR revolutionizes archaeology A new technology is helping archeologists map the environments around digs.

Meet a new breed of explorer using aircraft packed with laser technology to uncover hidden treasures and civilizations.

It is one of three honors bestowed in conjunction with the annual Graduate Research Symposium. This year, the symposium content is being presented in an online format in accord with the university’s ...

OpenAI has announced the winners of a its 'OpenAI to Z Challenge' that hopes to help archaeologists cut through the rain forest not with machetes, but with machine learning. Buried deep within ...

Positional accuracy Archaeological applications do not require survey-level positional accuracy. Archaeologists only need to be able to locate on the ground features that they identify in the 3D lidar ...

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 ...

Our contribution has demonstrated that LiDAR can more quickly map complex architectural features at a fine resolution on a rugged, forested landscape. My estimate is that the use of LiDAR saved ...