First rivers Google Street View will be photographed in Amazon

The idea was born in Copenhagen two years ago, when the superintendent of the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS), Virgilio Vianna, met two Google executives during a debate on climate change. "I proposed the idea and was immediately approved. Two years later, we are here, "said Virgilio Viana, quoted by the BBC. 

Here is the Forest Reserve of the Rio Negro, stop opening, the equipment to test Google Street View on top of a boat. It is the first time it is used for panoramic photography centered on the water. And here is also the community of tombs, two hours from Manaus, the state capital. 

The Google team that is in Brazil - to train employees of FAS and some natives, who will be responsible for the bulk of the work - called a meeting at the tomb to reveal to their residents for the purpose of the project, which record the daily life of the community, such as has happened in New York, London or Lisbon. 

"What we want is people to show that these forests and their communities from their point of view," notes Virgilio Vianna. "It is very important to show the environment and lifestyle of the native population, but also touch the world for the challenges of climate change, deforestation and poverty alleviation," he stresses. 

FAS, a non-govermental established to promote biodiversity conservation in the Amazon, and above all that these photos serve to relieve the consequences of current global policies for the environment, especially the effects of deforestation on the landscape. 

At the technical level, this project is also a challenge for Google. In addition to the photographs taken to navigate the Rio Negro and Amazon River (the second longest in the world), there is the forest and the car in exchange for a tripod with wheels to ride the equipment by local communities.

"Everything here is very different. We are used to make images of places that have formal addresses, which is not the case in these communities, much less the rivers and forest, "says Tuxen-Bettmen, Google. The end result can then be viewed on Google Maps and Google Earth with high-resolution photographs of one of the less accessible regions of the planet.

Source publico.pt