Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense ...

University of New Hampshire researchers are looking at data from laser imaging of forests with the goal of helping foresters and landowners track tree inventories to save them from the time-consuming ...

For the past several months, a twin-engine plane has slowly soared over Redwood National Park in search of the world's tallest trees. Five government agencies and conservation groups have pitched in ...

The Three Sisters has been getting some attention this year from mapmakers. Earlier this year, Scott Rapp of Adventure Maps of Salem released the which primarily focuses on the Three Sisters but also ...

A first-of-its-kind global map shows forest canopy height By using a satellite that fires the Earth with laser pulses from space, a researcher in the US has created the first global map of forest ...

Researchers in Romania uncovered ancient fortified settlements dating back nearly 5,000 years, thanks to LiDAR technology. The discovery was made in Neamț County, where a fortified settlement from the ...

Researchers working in Panama have produced the most accurate carbon map for an entire country. Using satellite imagery and extremely high-resolution Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data from ...

Kinshasa, DRC (18 may 2017) – The “Carbon Map and Model (CM&M)” project, executed by WWF in collaboration with the government of DRC and its partners have completed the first national forest biomass ...