Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before ... Using a pulsed laser technique called lidar, or light detection and ranging, satellites can peer through ...

jungle-clad space between known Mayan sites may once have been very heavily populated. Mexico's National Institute said about 6,479 structures were detected in LiDAR images covering an area of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A LiDAR scanning system has provided archaeologists with evidence of a sprawling Mayan ...

A team of geoinformatics experts from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava has mapped the 140-hectare site using ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Maya kingdoms vanished ... very different ways. Using lidar, a remote sensing method that utilizes airborne lasers, the researchers were able to create a nearly ...