Friday, November 23, 2012

Street view of Amazon



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This project originated about two years ago with this amazing idea to bring Street View
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technology to the Amazon as a way to bring people who are online all over
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the world to the Amazon to see the beauty of the forests and the beauty
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of the river for themselves.
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We've decided to start
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at the Rio Negro Sustainable Development Reserve.
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Where we'll collect images from the river,
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and then, collect images
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from the community and its surrounding area.
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We intend to get images
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from some tracks in the forest, to represent
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a bit of the community's daily life.
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The Street View Trike is a vehicle developed by Google
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that uses the cameras that collect Street View images
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on top of the cars.
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And they've adapted it on top of a tricycle
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so that the vehicle can collect images where cars can't go.
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We are training employees of the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation
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as well as local community members and will be leaving the equipment with them
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so that they can continue to share their point of view with
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the world and continue to collect data that they would like to see online as well.
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Google has an amazing
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vision to bring
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the world and all its diversity
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and all of its beauty to the global
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online audience
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through Google Maps and Google Earth
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and this is one amazing proj



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