Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR | Chris Fisher

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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.
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Can Lidar remove water and see all the shapes on the ocean floor? If it can we would find so many pre flood civilizations. It would change human history instantly. #savetedrussain

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I believe that it can.

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We use sonar to map the sea floor and the navy has been doing so for a long time. All info is classified but there's no way they haven't found submerged cities

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They certainly can. I was one of Dr. Fisher’s students at Colorado State, and looking for pre-flood civilizations is something that is starting to happen. Geographers use it for natural disaster resources.

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There is underwater Lidar. Initially designed for the offshore industry of course and it is still expensive.

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I have a newfound respect for archaeology and it's pioneers.

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I’ve been saying that they need to do this annually since the shuttle did this with radar during one of their last missions.

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I 100% agree we need to scan every place on earth with LiDar because it would open up everything to the public. LIDAR and genetic testing are 2 of biggest advancements to history and archeology and anthropology.

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Maybe the Honduran government was protecting the artifacts found from been taken to another country, as history has shown us that those arqueology findings end up in a museum in another country not with there people.

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When i was a kid, there was a rock where garter snakes wintered near my house and they just came out of a crack, but there were lots of them. I always wondered how big the space was, so start there.

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Your useage of the term discrimination belittles the term, you shouldnt do that for one. Secondly, Maybe they should apply to work for the channel or its parent companies as a translator? Regardless that is most likely a decision that was made at a corporate lawyer standpoint, its unlikely that the people at the top even know about it. Happens to channels all the time. Lastly, the Soviet Union is dead.

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[@philipgray3570]

LIDAR should be used to scan under MARS surface for ancient buildings. actually LIDAR should be used on every planet we visit it will answer the biggest question of all

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LiDar doesn't penetrate ground, or water.

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[@scratchpad7954]

This leads me to a point whose relevance to this is in immediate question, but at microscale, LiDAR is even being implemented in modern cars to provide advanced driver assistance features with Tesla already lightyears ahead of the game. A 200 THz (1.5-micrometer) wave traveling through the ethers at the speed of light is going to convey far more information to a car and its driver about the environment in which it is driving than a 50 kHz wave traveling through the ethers at the speed of sound using ultrasonic scanning.

[@lyrav2024]

You can use Lidar on uninhabited places but not with people. Radiation from Lidar is not a good thing.

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What is happening?

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As urban encroachment spreads, this also provides a useful tool to help identify possible points of conflict, or aid engineers design around cultural heritage sites before they're lost to mass construction overlays. This is an everywhere issue on the planet with 8 billion and counting pushing out.

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[@adityavyas1850]

Building a whole 3d map of world.... And using AR like ironman 😅 Sounds cool

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Cool knowing lidar can s3e straight through our homes etc

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Great talk! Lidar gives us the ability to discover places we've never been able to explore!

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I wonder if archeologist share ALL their findings with the world

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My first exposure to Lidar was at the WTC after 911. We used it to scan the twin towers and surrounding buildings so we had a map for the recovery teams to use and figure out where they were in mountains and valleys created by 210 stories of debris from the two collapsed towers. It was amazing.

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[@GetBourked]

Where can we find more information? The description has no links to the project or any helpful next steps to support this!

[@patrickdegenaar9495]

Great idea! There will be military objections and countries who will want to opt out. But if google can do this for streets, why not landscapes?

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Depends how high it's scanned from. Satellite perhaps?

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@@toni4729 lol good luck with that

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It might help not only digging out the Past fans, but also earthquakes damages and traces, think about it

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Vamos LiDAR com isso. "Let's deal with this." in portuguese

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It's not "this", the correct translation is " that"

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@@LovingTinha Really?

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​@@LovingTinha Sorry I don't understand what you mean. Are you saying that "isso" means "that"? Isso means This. Aquilo means That. In portuguese. Google translate indeed is saying that "isso" means "that". But that is not correct, google translate is a bit wrong here. Instead of the word "isso" alone, put the entire sentence: "Vamos lidar com isso." on google translate, and then it will give you the correct translation, which is "Let's deal with this."

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@@toni4729 yes... Isto= this. Isso= that.

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disappointed with the quality of these comments 😤

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Me too

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How so? Thanks

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I saw in a documentary once a kind of "tree top platform" that served as a based and could be moved around by helicopter whenever they needed. Maybe something like that could be used has a base for scientific research without damaging the forests or habitats they are studying.

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They don't want someone else making views but they should create translations themselves then

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What about LIDAR data from military planes and drones where LIDAR is used to navigate the flight on low altitudes, isn't the world's military scanning terrain with LIDAR on a massive scale?

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So basicly they know its coming and unavoidable! So they are saving whatever they can!

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There's nothing enbironmental coming unless it's made made like the 7+ new clouds scientists are so proud of.. The only thing actually coming is Totalitarianism. Brace yaselves

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@@ha6092 any luck? I remember watching report and the lady was so proud of their accomplishments... that's literally being proud of the devil playing God. It's sickening.

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Lidar is even better than photogrametry hope Google and especially Bing maps start using it more and we get results in Microsoft flight simulator

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Awesome is this project in motion currently. How is it funded, who has the capability and offers these scans? What do they cost. What kind of equipment is used in taking the scans and developing them?

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Virtual planet, i feel this could be the idea of meta.

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Lidar is awesome! And a dr Jones jacket ofcource...

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Fortuaally we did see Notra Dame return to life.

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Think the title sums it up..

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I’m sold.

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Very helpful

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Can't wait for hunting ancient civilizations from home!

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Great video 👍

[@chrismurray2978]

Sounds like a good idea, but how can we trust the increasing scrutiny we are under, whether populated or wild and uninhabited, this world has already been observed pretty well and no one can say that this info has not been used for nefarious purposes! As with many others, I have no doubt that this exploitation will continue and however naive and trusting good people are, their best research has continually been used by those who hi- jack the good work of sincere scientific enquirers.To trust governments( who are consistently used and manipulated by invisible power players) with data and expect them to be responsible with that info is patently STUPID! Wake up and smell the potential for corruption by preventing the possibility for information being used by these destructive influences. Obviously you care about your work and the planet, but don't allow yourself to be " pollyana'd" into providing dangerous institutions with fodder for their schemes.

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write coherently please

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Amazing 👍

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Is that David Brent's jacket?

[@SurfbyShootin]

"Including your home!"

[@toni4729]

Scan the whole earth fine, but leave the forests alone. What's under them will stay there, it's not going anywhere. When you make better pictures we'll know more about what's there without interfering with them. In the meantime, if you've scanned the entire earth, I'm sure you'll find plenty more far more available to dig up.

[@noalear]

That's not accurate. Flooding will wash it away in a heartbeat.

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Talk talk talk

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For your health!

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[@charmdOMG]

This proves humans have been around much longer than we have been told. Where did these people go there was a cataclysm animals died in a flash, they are the fossils and ruins that we find today.

just a correction for the transcript: it's "CyArk", not SCI-Arc - www.cyark.org

[@Tomevone]

Where’s the scan though

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Good stuff

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That is amazing

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Fun fact: I’m actually a human

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Hey me too!!

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Well... i’m a Cyborg

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Ok......

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Didn't we have this talk already?

[@mischake]

It's great don't get me wrong

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Super cool

[@davidstorey7541]

Heard of the STS-99 shuttle mission? It mapped 80% of the Earth with single / dual radar.

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@sub R0cky it doesn't map in the same way your eyes don't really see... Why make such an ignorant statement?

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Do ya think?

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The whole world made into a mix of GTA, Flight Simulator and Forza Horizon 🤤

[@grahammewburn]

I have watched the oil industry for over 15 years. The discovery of oil peaked in 1964. In 2019 Rystad Energy reported that the global discovery of oil is 9 billion barrels. Mankind consumes 3 billion barrels a month. 36 billion PA. 9 billion barrels is sufficient for 3 months. It's 27 billion barrels short of what is required to maintain our current lifestyle. Soon demand will exceed supply as we cannot pump undiscovered oil. Oil and food are linked 3 ways. 1. Agricultural chemicals made from oil and gas. They improve food production X 3. An area that previously produced 1 ton of food now produce 3 tons of food. Google:- green revolution. 2. Farm machinery is powered by diesel from oil. 3. Transport from farm to a shop near us is also powered by diesel. When I was born in 1948 there were 2 billion people living on planet Earth. Now there's 7 billion. A reversal of the Green revolution will result in farm productivity collapsing. Global famine will follow. Please grow your own food. Regards Gray

[@LovingTinha]

This is the real reason why they lie about weather, and want to depopulate through deceptive means such as man made viruses and the vaccines. They don't know how to transition to alternate ways of living under the corrupt limiting monetary system. Incompetent leadership at its finest.

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www.worldometers.info/oil/

[@grahammewburn]

@@user-td4gh6kj2z thank you for sharing this info with me. I have been using worldometer to keep up-to-date with Covid 19. Those figures are estimates. If there was so much oil why is the global oil industry struggling to find it?

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@@grahammewburn the industry isn't struggling to find it, regulations make it hard to get to safely.

[@user-td4gh6kj2z]

@@grahammewburn didn't mean to send just yet. Essentially the oil companies don't want to spend the money to get some of the harder to reach stuff, so they're running the clock in the hopes that tech will advance to make it cheaper to get to. It's like the Doldrums, why spend a hundred million now when we can spend twenty five in ten years and still profit all along the way?

[@cla99009]

I'd consider scanning public land, but not private property.

[@cyarwood]

Mars too.

[@jerrypolverino6025]

Our dichotomy. So many wonderful and concerned scientists. So many evil leaders serving the greedy and evil.

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You know what? Read more

[@larsfroelich]

Well that's worth spreading

[@KlimovArtem1]

How about Google Earth? You already can access data like that there, absolutely free.

[@brofessormex]

Im on board. If you need us to scan some forest why not hire a bunch of firefighters with drones....

[@nancyvu6884]

How can i have a transcrip of this video? Thanks

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You know what? Read more

[@yousuf817]

Good

[@iantsears]

Those who know HOW will always work for those who know "WHY". Those who pay for the collection control HOW it is used for their profit. Those who knew HOW will be helpless when unable to access the result for the original intent.

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Ain't never known any Teds and furthermore, I ain't never been to Russia, so I don't reckon Id ever care to save the feller.

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Верните тед на русском mrazi

[@src3360]

If you want to keep sites protected, leave them alone 🙏🏻

[@emywkosha]

waaaaaw very nice

[@jimj2683]

Just need some solar powered drone swarms that scan everything and then have AI stitch everything together and fill out the missing details.

[@omidomid748]

Why not sound ?

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

there is sound, maybe it's a hardware problem on your end