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Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR

Chris Fisher · TED

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About

We have archives of films, newspapers, even seeds -- what if we could make one for the entire surface of the earth? Drawing on his experience mapping an ancient city in the Honduran jungle, archaeologist Chris Fisher makes the case for scanning the whole planet with LiDAR -- a technology that uses lasers shot from an airplane to map the ground -- in order to preserve our cultural and ecological heritage.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxMileHigh
Speaker
Chris Fisher
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, History
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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