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

  • Amazônia, Brazil • Collaboration with Liam Martin / Superinfra • 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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