# Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxMileHigh
- Speaker: Chris Fisher
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_fisher_let_s_scan_the_whole_planet_with_lidar)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/chris_fisher_let_s_scan_the_whole_planet_with_lidar/072a14b4f7be), 14 min (TED's player)