Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al. Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High Geotechnological Tools Patricia Lustosa Brito*, Daniel Nadier Cavalcanti Reis*, Ricardo Lustosa Brito**, Vivian de Oliveira Fernandes*, Mauro Alixandrini* •Escola Politécnica of Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil ** Escola de Medicina Veterinária of Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil •Master Program in Urban Environmental Engineering
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Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High
Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al.
Empowering Brazilian
Unprivileged Communities with
High Geotechnological Tools
Patricia Lustosa Brito*, Daniel Nadier Cavalcanti Reis*, Ricardo Lustosa Brito**, Vivian de Oliveira
Fernandes*, Mauro Alixandrini*
•Escola Politécnica of Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
** Escola de Medicina Veterinária of Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
•Master Program in Urban Environmental Engineering
Empowering Brazilian Unprivileged Communities with High
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Article Motivation and Goal
• High- geotech tools are not so far away any more from the most needed communities;
• We hear about projects using it;
• What are they doing?
• How are they dealing with the gap between high technology and low life quality? Between local and global?
• Goal: Present some experiences that show how these tools are helping unprivileged communities to take their place in this new globalized world, while empowering themselves to comprehend and effectively participate on a sustainable territorial planning and management.
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– Global Navigation Satellite System
– Geobrowsers
– Remote Sensing Products
– Geographic Information Systems
– Collaborative internet mapping
Some High Geo-tech Tools
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MethodologyExperiences source:
• Internet general and academic search engines using Portuguese keywords related to the theme
• Collaborative maps platforms
• Brazilian GIS specialized journal
• Experiences in which some of the authors have participated
Figura busca
na internet
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Methodology
A catalog of Brazilian experiences with a representative number of contributions was created.
Brazilian projects or publications that presented an experience of poor communities that have participated on the process of mapping themselves were identified and described.
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https://catalogodemapascoletivosbr.crowdmap.com
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Some experiences identified
• WIKIMAPA project - Rio de Janeiro slums
• Kabu Institute - Kayapó indigenous
• PNGEO (National Program for
Georeferenced Beekeepers Registry)
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WIKIMAPA project - Rio de Janeiro slums
wikimapa.org.br
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wikimapa.org.br
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• The project located in an Amazonia
• Conceived for Kayapó indigenous by a company specialized in GIS.
• Use geotechnology to assist in the preservation of the indigenous area. – GPS devices to collect the coordinates of locations
where there is some kind of illegal practice.
– Information is added to maps and reports, developed by Kabu Institute, and sent to the Federal Police and to Funai (National Indigenous Foundation).
www.kabu.org.br
Kabu Institute
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Kabu Institute - Kayapó indigenous
Etnomapeamento, aldeia Apeyti
www.kabu.org.br
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PNGEO – Beekeepers at rural communities
Goals:
• Investigate possible improvement for honey production,
• Generate a geographical data base for CBA planning and monitoring activities
1.5km
http://www.brasilapicola.com.br/pngeo
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Geotech use:
• beekeepers and professional rural assistants collect geographical coordinates using GPS devices andto register information about beekeepers residences, apiaries,honey processing houses, water sources, agrochemical farming, etc.
• Google Earth is also used as a plug- in application of the software TrackMaker, allowing rural producers to recognize apiaries distribution according to land cover.
PNGEO – Beekeepers at rural communities
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Geotechnological Tools – Brito, P. L., et al. PNGEO/CBA program
execution steps
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Discussion and conclusion
• Popularity of GNSS technology
• Smartphones with GNSS receiver are not yet popular at poor comunities, but mobiles with digital camera features are.
• Access to internet has been highly improved at under privileged urban communities, as well as at small towns at poor regions of Brazil.
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Discussion and conclusion• Extension of Brasil x capilarity
achieved by rural assistants professionals
• Motivation for voluntier collaboration x NGOs, Universities x Government role
