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New device can scan your face in 3D from hundreds of metres away
A lidar scanner has a resolution so high it can image ridges and indentations only 1 millimetre deep on objects hundreds of ...
Did You Know iPhones Can Measure a Person's Height? Here's How
Phones equipped with a LiDAR Scanner have a useful trick: they can be used to measure a person's height. In order to take ...
Ultra-Precise LiDAR Sees Through Smoke and Camouflage From a Kilometer Away
Imagine being able to capture a high-resolution 3D image of a distant object—even a human face—through fog, foliage, or ...
Archaeology breakthrough as researchers discover ancient Mexican city 'frozen in time'
LiDAR was the key technology that enabled Ramón Celis to uncover the full scale of Guiengola. Unlike traditional ...
Remote sensing tools yield insights into abandoned pre-Columbian Mexican city
A McGill University researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15th century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which ...