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Objects in this. game most can work together to create architectural masterpieces but at the same time they're also in directly working for microsoft for free it's no secret that microsoft google and co collect as much location data as they can through my phone so long as i don't opt out the data collected from minecraft earth is going straight into microsoft's cloud system and is helping create a super precise 3 d. model of the earth this trouble's privacy advocates now microsoft insists that no photos of the gaming environment will end up online only low resolution point but what about if i ...

With this 3-d imaging? what are are you doing? >> we began working in babylon in 2009 on site. and so because of security issues, we couldn't be on site aa long time at any one stretch. we used laser technology to capture what's called a point cloud of data. so very intensive high resolution photography and measure iing devices that allowu then with time to process the image into drawings and architectural measured drawings that help us understand how to conserve the site. >> such important work. lisa ackerman, thank you so much. >> thank you for inviting us. >> absolutely. coming up next, h...

This is a spectrum of what the frequencies are in the ocean. it's ocean noise. if the pinger is heard, it will see a spike here. >> that is one thing that is helping us. and the other technology is what the sonar is picking up. >> the sonar is building up sound and we are getting back an image of what is on the floor. we have a 3d point cloud and an image and we are building slowly a map of the floor. >> how long does it take? >> it's time consuming. particularly because you have to get these sensors down deep. 4,000 and 5,000 meter of water is difficult. >> it's part of the reason that it's d...

Up a 3-d map. >> let's go inside and take a look at how this data is translating, starting off with the data coming in from the hydrophone and how that looks when you let this computer hear what it's picking up. >> the hydrophone, you could put it on your ears and listen to what's in the ocean and you're listening for that once per second click. this is a spectrum of the noise in the ocean. this is ocean noise here on the boat. if that pinger were nearby, we would see a sharp spike at the 30 to 40 kilahertz. >> you also have this coming in, which is the sonar, correct? >> exactly. this is the ...

What it's picking up. >> the hydrophone you could put on your ears and listen for what's in the ocean, the one-second click from the pinger. you could look at it visually. this is a spectrum or the noise in the ocean. ocean noise here on the boat. if that pinger were nearby we'd see a sharp spike at the 30 to 40 kill hertz once a second on the display. >> while that's one bit of data coming in, you have this data coming in which is the sonar, correct? >> exactly. this is the mapping sonar. we're looking below the boat. we're getting that information that comes back to interpret what's on the s...