But they concluded that improving airborne surveillance technology made more sense, at least in the United States.
Airborne wind technology is not yet mature and there are challenges ahead, he concedes, but more money is needed to speed development.
In recent years, the use of airborne lidar technology to measure forest biophysical characteristics has been rapidly increasing.
Airborne laser technology called Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) stands apart in this effort because, like field inventories, LiDAR measures aspects of the physical structure of woody vegetation in ecosystems ranging from sparse shrublands to dense forests [14 17].
A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said.
Airborne laser technology called Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) stands apart in this effort because, like field inventories, LiDAR measures aspects of the physical structure of woody vegetation in ecosystems ranging from sparse shrublands to dense forests [ 14- 17].
Moore has made airborne-wind technology something of a personal crusade, lobbying for support wherever he can.
Foreign flora are adapting so successfully to the Hawaiian Islands that they are crowding out indigenous tree species and making it nearly impossible for those species to recover on their own, according to measurements from a new combination of airborne-sensing technologies.
Now, the airborne laser-scanning technology called lidar has helped fill those gaps, producing maps that reveal remnants of a highly engineered urban landscape hidden beneath a blanket of jungle and rice fields.
The Australian archaeologist Dr Damian Evans, whose findings will be published in the Journal of Archaeological Science on Monday, will announce that cutting-edge airborne laser scanning technology has revealed multiple cities between 900 and 1,400 years old beneath the tropical forest floor, some of which rival the size of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh.
