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Pobeka

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1. A minor nit. They don't fire billions of lasers, they fire one laser billions of times.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Apr 30, 2021, 07:28 PM

Apr 2021

I worked with lidar not so long ago, at high densities (20 + firings per square meter on the ground), and done well, you can see a lot of detail, even beneath the tree canopy. Cool stuff.

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Details of stunning Maya acropolises and sophisticated civilization revealed by laser scans [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2021 OP

A minor nit. They don't fire billions of lasers, they fire one laser billions of times. Pobeka Apr 2021 #1

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