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GPS + modeling reveal shrinking glacier

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Photo: Jupiterimages/PHOTOS.com/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) calculates that thinning of Alaska’s Taku Glacier has increased from an average rate of 0.5 meter to 2 meters per year over the past two decades. Annual mapping by JIRP…
Lidar and UAV reveal Mayan ‘megalopolis’ below Guatemalan jungle

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Lidar and UAV technology has revealed hundreds of previously unknown Mayan ruins in the Guatemalan rainforest. The Optech Titan stripped away overlying vegetation to reveal extensive Mayan ruins in Guatemala’s rainforest. (Image:Teledyne Optech) In what is considered biggest aerial lidar survey…