All Over The Map: LiDAR tech reveals ghostly causeway, phantom lake on Eastside

12/10/2024 3 min
All Over The Map: LiDAR tech reveals ghostly causeway, phantom lake on Eastside

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The technology known as LiDAR – Light Detection and Ranging, a laser-driven means of making precise measurements over large areas – has been helping scientists understand geology and natural history for many years. It turns out that LiDAR is also pretty useful for plumbing the depths of recent human history too, including a phantom lake on the Eastside.