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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