Scientists Found a Mind-Blowing Mayan Civilization Buried in Plain Sight

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3. Certainly the northern Yucatan Pennisula is a great place for lidar.

I was heavily involved with lidar use in the Pacific Northwest, where the forest cover is exceptionally dense, making it very difficult for a laser shot to make it all the way to the ground.

Having travelled to the Yucatan a couple of times as a tourist, what I saw of the native "forest" there, if you could call it that, was very open, and lidar would've been exceptional at getting all the way to the ground on a large number of laser shots. It's those ground shots that give the good view of old structures.

I don't know how open the native forests are as you travel further south towards Guatemala, Belize etc...