The authors' central claim in the passage is that
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lidar's opponents have prevented the
technology from advancing to a point where it
might be scientifically useful, favoring traditional
methods
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fieldwork and lidar are best used in
combination when mapping carbon in tropical
forests, in order to avoid human error while
maintaining accuracy.
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lidar is as important a technology as mri
scanning or the scientific study of the moon with
lasers
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lidar technology is faster. cheaper, and nearly as
accurate as traditional field methods for
measuring the carbon biomass on earth