# Lidar In Archaeology

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Airborne LIDAR uncovered exactly 61 000 hidden Maya structures beneath the forest canopy.

Conventional archaeological mapping typically needs 10 years to cover 20‑30 km², whereas LIDAR captured 300 km² of precise data in just six months.

The LIDAR survey was completed in a single day, with subsequent processing taking several months to produce a full 3D map.

I credited Marcello Canuto and Takeshi Inomata for the insights and Steve Snow for the original post, using hashtags like #anthropology and #datascience.

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