
Digital Armor for the Grand Canal
To preserve a 2,500-year-old waterway, engineers in Hangzhou are deploying a high-tech monitoring network that treats the Grand Canal not as a relic, but as a living system. By combining laser scanning, structural sensors, and augmented reality, they are turning physical stone into permanent digital assets.









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