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To address this, the research team is expanding their measurement facilities and collaborating with well-equipped research institutions abroad.

India's pollution control authority has classified the air in Delhi as "severe plus", after the city passed 450 according to its measurements on Monday morning.

"Since LiDAR technology is already implemented widely in devices such as autonomous cars, smartphones and robots," Huang concludes, "our method enriches their capabilities with surface property measurement at very small scales."

Their measurements found that during the day, green spaces are indeed cooler than the surrounding built-up areas, but this effect is often counterbalanced by increased humidity.

A TEU is a unit of measurement based on the volume of a standard shipping container, and loaded imports and exports refers to cargo containers that are filled with goods.