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Lidar images of Valeriana, a hidden city in Mexico. Luke Auld-Thomas/Tulane University When Auld-Thomas and Marcello started looking at the lidar data, they were surprised to see an entire city ...
An American student analysing publicly available data found a sprawling Mayan city with thousands of undiscovered structures, including pyramids, under a Mexican forest.. The data came from laser ...
[3] [5] Lidar data was used because Lidar produces high resolution terrain data through forest cover, [2] and the technology has been used to discover other unknown Maya sites in the past. However, it being expensive, these researchers used preexisting Lidar data from a 2013 forest monitoring project by the Mexican branch of The Nature Conservancy.
Ocomtún is an ancient Late Classic city located on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mexican state of Campeche.Archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of the city in June 2023, after finding the ruins of several pyramid structures measuring approximately 15 m (49 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in height in a relatively unexplored area of the state. [1]
LiDAR survey data reveals ancient Maya buildings (inset, center) clustered on a hilltop, while a satellite image (far left and right) shows modern agriculture and roadbuilding underway in the ...
Mexico’s National Institute said about 6,479 structures have been detected in LiDAR images covering an area of about 47 square miles (122 square kilometers). The technique maps landscapes using thousands of lasers pulses sent from a plane, which can detect variations in topography that ware not evident to the naked eye.
Aguada Fénix is a large Preclassic Mayan ruin located in the state of Tabasco, Mexico, near the border with Guatemala. It was discovered by aerial survey using laser mapping and announced in 2020. [1] [2] The flattened mound is 1,400 m long (nearly a mile) and is described as the oldest and the largest Mayan ceremonial site known. [3]
The once-forgotten city in the jungles of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula was detected from the skies by LiDAR and contains pyramids, a ball court and spaces marked out by unusual stone ...