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Lidar can find ancient ruins under dense jungle canopies. Could it do the same thing for a missing plane in the evergreen forests of western Canada?
by irrational 3y ago
Lidar can find ancient ruins under dense jungle canopies. Could it do the same thing for a missing plane in the evergreen forests of western Canada?
- brazzy 3y agoI doubt that very much. Lidar "finds" ruins by showing large, regular (round, rectangular) structures which then stand out very much to human analysts. But an airplane that crashes at high speed results in a field of relatively small, irregular debris.
- foota 3y agoIf part of the fuselage was intact it seems like that might show up with high enough resolution? Most things in nature aren't that smoothly curved
- kaliqt 3y agoWell sure, if you're lucky. Therein lies the problem, hard to tell until you try and actually find it, because we've no idea what condition it's in and where it ended up.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoYou won't get a nice 3D model of everything in the area. You would get a bunch of dots on a plane with a lot of noise. Edit: reworded.