AAI — Laura-India Garinois

2016
AIR AS INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructural, Botanical, and Ecological Information System

Amazônia, Brazil • Collaboration with Liam Martin • Supervisors: Tao Dufour and Paulo Tavares

Air as Infrastructure is a program comprised of various infrastructural, botanical,
and ecological information systems which aim to provide autonomous
communication channels for protected territories and indigenous communities
in the Tapajós National Forest. The scalable broadband communication network
solution provides protective tools to the forest and its residents to monitor
their land. It also enables the transaction of decolonized information between
communities and territories, strengthening social organization
and broadening access to internet-enabled devices within the forest.

fig.1 Total RF propagations in the Tapajós generated by the communication network, providing local communicties with protective tools to monitor their land

fig. 2 Total RF propagations in the Tapajós

fig. 3 App interface: geotag and identification of species along path

fig. 4 App interface: biodiversity mapping

fig. 5 Temporal denities mapped in the Tapajós National Forest

fig. 6 Connection between Aveiro and mid-forest

fig. 7 App interface: identified species data

fig. 8 Projection of data onto 1:30,000 milled model of the Tapajós region: RF propagations (1) (3) and deforestation between 1984 - 201

fig. 9 Projection of data onto 1:30,000 milled model of the Tapajós region: RF propagations (1) (3) and deforestation between 1984 - 201

fig. 10 Projection of data onto 1:30,000 milled model of the Tapajós region: RF propagations (1) (3) and deforestation between 1984 - 2012

fig. 11 Scale model of technical components in the rainforest

fig. 12 Deforested zones in the Tapajós region

fig. 13 Relay located in mid-forest condition, enabling community-scale Wi-Fi network access to individual homes and smaller devices

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