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Amazon Rainforest Mapped in Unprecedented Detail
from the Guardian (UK)
Five thousand metres above the most biodiverse corner of the Amazon, tropical ecologist Greg Asner and his team see a kaleidoscope of colours among a mass
of green.
Huddled in a twin-engine Dornier 228 aeroplane called the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, the scientists are capturing multicoloured images of the Peruvian
rainforest canopy that verge on the psychedelic.
Inside the plane, a machine known as a Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) bounces a laser beam off the forest canopy 400,000 times per second--the result
is a three-dimensional map of the forest showing unprecedented detail.
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