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Visit the Amazon on World Forest Day with Street View
March 21, 2012
Last August, a few members of our Brazil and U.S.
Street View
and
Google Earth Outreach
teams
were invited to the Amazon Basin
to collect ground-level images of the rivers, forest and communities in the Rio Negro Reserve. Today, on World Forest Day, we’re making those images available through the Street View feature on
Google Maps
. Now anyone can experience the beauty and diversity of the Amazon.
Tributary of the Rio Negro -
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Take a virtual boat ride down the
main section of the Rio Negro
, and float up into the
smaller tributaries where the forest is flooded
. Stroll along the
paths of Tumbira
, the largest community in the Reserve, or visit some of the
other communities
who invited us to share their lives and cultures. Enjoy a hike along an
Amazon forest trail
and
see where Brazil nuts are harvested
. You can even see a
forest critter
if you look hard enough!
Amazon Rainforest -
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This project was made possible in partnership with the
Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS)
, the local nonprofit conservation organization that invited us to the area. We used the
Street View trike
and a tripod camera with a fisheye lens—typically used to capture imagery of
business interiors
—to capture both the natural landscape and the local communities. In all, more than 50,000 still photos were stitched together to create these immersive, 360-degree panoramic views:
Many areas of the Amazon, including Rio Negro Reserve, are under the protection of the Brazilian government with restricted access to the public, so we hope that this Street View collection provides access to this special corner of the planet that many of us otherwise wouldn’t have the chance to experience. Together with FAS, we’re thrilled to help everyone from researchers and scientists to armchair explorers around the world learn more about the Amazon, and better understand how local communities there are working to preserve this unique environment for future generations.
To do this directly from maps you can go to Brazil map and drag Pegman to the Rio Negro River
Start exploring this portion of the Amazon and other collections around the world on the updated Street View site and
gallery
.
Posted by Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Project Lead for Google Street View in the Amazon
(Cross-posted on the
Lat Long blog
)
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