Cliff falls: using a smartphone to track erosion

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Geographer Gregor Luetzenburg uses the latest iPhone’s LiDAR scanner to create 3D models of cliff surfaces.

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  1. Jack Leeming
Gregor Lützenburg using an iPhone as a tool for topographic land surveying.

Gregor Luetzenburg is a PhD fellow in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen. Credit: Kent Pørksen

I know in this photo I look like I’m moonlighting as an Instagram model, but I’m actually doing some important, practical science that would have been impossible a couple of years ago.

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Nature 604, 794 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01118-y

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