A sprawling Maya city with palaces and pyramids was discovered ... But combing through those dense jungles needed the assistance of Lidar, a remote sensing technology that uses lasers to measure ...

Archaeologists have revealed an ancient lost Mayan city using advanced laser mapping technology, unearthing monumental structures such as pyramids and plazas. Named Valeriana, the city is believed to ...

More than a thousand years have passed since their heyday, however, and as humans continue to destroy our environment, ...

The city of Tugunbulak, which stretched beyond the ... But it’s going to take a long time before we know anything for sure. Lidar drone mapping saved Frachetti’s team roughly a decade ...

There, among the data in a 2013 airborne LiDAR study—a process of mapping the earth by firing lasers from an airplane—was a vast and previously unknown Mayan city. The city has been buried ...

The researchers also managed to identify specific structures in the lidar that made up the Mayan city, including a ballcourt and a dam. One architectural arrangement at one of the sites indicated ...

The data, originally collected by a research group studying land-use patterns, was captured using UAV mapping technology and lidar. Auld-Thomas applied archaeological analysis methods to the survey ...

The new LiDAR scans also highlight the connections ... that Maya cities — including their hinterland — were isolated city-states or regional kingdoms,” Morales-Aguilar said.

Here, I present the research of the Guiengola Archeological Project, which conducted a lidar scan and archaeological surveys between 2018 and 2023. In this article, I share a comprehensive map of ...