Complex of Mounds in 2 Parts (IMAGE)

American Geophysical Union

Complex of Mounds in 2 Parts

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A complex of mounds and, possibly, ancient building foundations becomes visible (bottom image) when laser reflections from the tree canopy (green in top image) are filtered out of the lidar data from a site in the Mosquitia region of Honduras.

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