Drone-mounted lasers reveal ancient settlement off Florida coast
by Victoria Bekiempis from Science | The Guardian on (#4TN87)
- Archaeological remains date from 900 to 1200 CE
- Lidar crucial to discovery: 'This technology is unbelievable'
Drone-mounted lasers have revealed details of the architecture of an ancient island settlement off Florida's Gulf coast, researchers said in a new paper published on Monday.
University of Florida archaeologists, doctoral candidate Terry E Barbour and Professor Ken Sassaman, used aerial drones with light detection and ranging (Lidar) sensors - to create detailed 3D maps of the surface of Raleigh Island.
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