How a Flying Laser Built a 3-D Map of a Massive Alaskan Forest
The Last Frontier is vast, yet threadbare of roads. Settlements are motes on the terrain. There’s so much space, so much of it inaccessible, that the US Forest Service — charged by Congress with keeping track of the nation’s timber — readily admits that more than one-quarter of the state’s forest has never been inventoried. But that’s about to change.

December 16, 2014 at 07:32AM
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