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Moon Lidar<\/a> is a visualization of some six billion measurements from the LRO<\/abbr>\u2019s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter<\/a> produced by software consultancy Hobu. Details here<\/a>. Pretty impressive, and pretty, but it\u2019s more of a proof of concept than a useable tool: no labels, only an alphabetical list of features in the menu that you can zoom to. [Kottke<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moon Lidar is a visualization of some six billion measurements from the LRO\u2019s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter produced by software consultancy Hobu. Details here. Pretty impressive, and pretty, but it\u2019s more of a proof of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1150,63],"class_list":["post-1836160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-lidar","tag-moon","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1784924,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/lidar-mapping-reveals-a-far-greater-mayan-civilization\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836160,"position":0},"title":"LIDAR Mapping Reveals a Far Greater Mayan Civilization","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 February 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"A 2016 aerial survey of ten sites in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve used LIDAR to digitally remove the tree canopy from the landscape, revealing,\u00a0National Geographic reports, \"the ruins of a sprawling pre-Columbian civilization that was far more complex and interconnected than most Maya specialists had supposed\"\u2014and one that likely supported\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Archaeology"","block_context":{"text":"Archaeology","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/archaeology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1807411,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/05\/mapping-the-height-of-earths-forests\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836160,"position":1},"title":"Mapping the Height of Earth\u2019s Forests","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 May 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"NASA Earth Observatory\u2019s map of Earth\u2019s forest canopy height is based on estimates from a deep-learning model applied to Sentinel-2 optical data. 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