Tuesday, December 30, 2014

"Lost" New England Revealed by High-Tech Archaeology

A 'Lost' New England is found using #Lidar. To find out more, National Geographic interviews Katharine Johnson of the University of Connecticut and asks what was so great about using Lidar technology.

"...Similar to seeing Maya pyramids emerging from the forest, we can see sites that we couldn't any other way. I literally walk into the woods with GPS coordinates from LiDAR and find a foundation I would never have imagined was there..."

Click on the link to read the original article. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140103-new-england-archaeology-lidar-science/


 
 
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