{"id":88273,"date":"2019-03-01T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/laser-scans-uncover-hidden-military-traverse-underneath-alcatraz"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:02:24","slug":"laser-scans-uncover-hidden-military-traverse-underneath-alcatraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/laser-scans-uncover-hidden-military-traverse-underneath-alcatraz","title":{"rendered":"Laser Scans Uncover Hidden Military Traverse Underneath Alcatraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5iNZ-ado4Es?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alcatraz holds many forgotten secrets, but one has been discovered: High-tech radar and laser scans have uncovered a hidden military traverse underneath the infamous penitentiary, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Binghamton University, State University of New York used terrestrial laser scans, ground-penetrating radar data, and georectifications (the process of taking old digitized maps and linking them to a coordinate system so that they can be accurately geolocated in 3D space) to locate and assess the historical remains beneath the former recreation yard of the Alcatraz penitentiary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/news\/story\/1656\/high-tech-laser-scans-uncover-hidden-military-traverse-at-alcatraz-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/laser-scans-uncover-hidden-military-traverse-underneath-alcatraz-1776711\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/laser-scans-uncover-hidden-militar...z-1776711\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcatraz holds many forgotten secrets, but one has been discovered: High-tech radar and laser scans have uncovered a hidden military traverse underneath the infamous penitentiary, according to new research. A team of researchers from Binghamton University, State University of New York used terrestrial laser scans, ground-penetrating radar data, and georectifications (the process of taking old [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}