For Christmas this year, [Scottshambaugh] decided to make his family a map of their hometown — Portland, ME. Using topographical map data, he made this jaw-dropping 3D map, and it looks amazing. He ...

Within a year or two, the U.S. military could field a portable, laser backpack device that will provide a three-dimensional (3-D) map of buildings. The reconnoitering pack could be used by ...

Researchers have developed a way to use laser-based surveying instruments to create detailed images of ancient etchings on stone. The new technique, which provides far more information than ...

For Christmas this year, [Scottshambaugh] decided to make his family a map of their hometown — Portland, ME. Using topographical map data, he made this jaw-dropping 3D map, and it looks amazing. He ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published March 27, 2014. The original copy has been republished below as part of our 10-year anniversary coverage in order to fix broken links, photos, ...

It's Oregon like you've never seen it -- at least on a map. Using a laser-based terrain mapping system, the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has produced giant color images of the ...

A laser-shooting eye in the sky has revealed the previously unappreciated size and complexity of ancient Maya civilization, both before and during its presumed heyday, scientists say. Maya people in ...

Washington Air National Guardsmen methodically make their way through the mud and wreckage left behind by the March 22, 2014, mudslide in Oso, Wash. (Photo by Spc. Matthew Sissel/122D PAOC) People who ...

(TNS) -- An aerial map compiled a year before the deadly Oso landslide shows that the upper portion of the hillside was being dangerously undercut, which could point the way to identifying other ...

Few people would have given much thought to a twin-engine Cessna taking off from the Minden-Tahoe Airport on Sept. 20, 2017. And only the most diligent observer would have noticed the aircraft as it ...

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