Science

What On Earth Is This?

No, this isn’t a closeup of a Cosby Sweater. Nor is it the result of those shrooms you ingested 20 minutes ago. It’s actually science’s newest means of mapping one of the Earth’s wildest and most remote regions.


Science

The Most Precise Image Of A Post-Earthquake Landscape Ever Created

A new measurement tool that uses light detection and ranging (or LiDAR) can show how earthquakes have changed the landscape down to a few inches — and that can help us prepare for difficult-to-predict earthquakes.


June 18, 2011
Geek Out

A Hyper-Detailed 3D Map Of NYC, Made By Laser Airplanes

New York is fairly forward-thinking when it comes to energy innovation, but it’s pretty terrible when it comes to solar. City College of New York wants to change that, so they created an interactive solar map of the city using laser airplanes.


October 14, 2010

What Is This?

Believe it or not, this is the moon. Zoom out for the complete image and the explanation.


January 9, 2010
Cameras

Suck It, Street View, Navteq Maps The World In 3D… With Lasers

Google’s Street View team famously photographs all kinds of weird stuff as they drive the world, but Navteq, who basically invented this stuff, just built a mount with seven cameras and 64 lasers to see everything better, in 3D.