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it's remote and vast the only people out there are the tribe and illegal loggers hunters miners there's no police willfully leader out Bob suey defendi floresta he was the first indigenous chief ever to meet with Google Earth he came to propose a partnership between the suruí people and Google he said you know about technology we know about the forests here in the top they have Sally images showing illegal incursions into this area I was interested in seeing what was happening with the deforestation of the Amazon and that's when I came across this who do each I've that is doing work with technology to try and stop deforestation in its territory it was kind of shocking because you kind of go from this kind of deforested Plains area into the jungle and suddenly it's like you're in the middle of nowhere well most wanted to go now and is not oily sete de setembro Jamuna up sent to see some technology once they made contact they were exposed to all sorts of diseases tuberculosis influenza Yoji most people assume aproximadamente their tribe was greatly diminished down to three hundred members my god back to the resort is vinegar in Peru Billy Madero they weren't able to defend that their entire territory and he said to his father the time has come to put down the bow and arrow and to pick up the laptop as a tool for protecting their people defending their land he came across Google and was shocked by what he saw whoa Sepulveda poisoning my Zatoichi the one g thing dental faith are you a mortgage this month amended I first met chief Almir in June of 2007 at that time there was a hundred thousand dollar bounty on his head for mobilizing his people and resistance to the illegal logging invasions of his land and he had a realization that Google Earth could be a tool to understand the threats that they face you can even see in the satellite imagery areas where the land had been invaded some of these were areas that he didn't even know about no jugamos moon Susanne's for genesis of time my marginal cacao cam is to map sound Technica when the pseudo you get this information from google earth they'll likely go to the area to see if they can get some really on the ground and evidence of what's happening while driving up there you pass a lot of trucks with logs on them and these are not government sanctioned shops we're here with about 15 to 20 members of the city there aren't a lot of villages in this part of the territory so they want to make sure that trees aren't being cut down illegal miners there's strange feeling of you don't know who's out here anybody that you're gonna run into out there it's probably not a good thing they're probably not your friend we did see evidence of people coming into the territory we saw illegal roads that loggers had made we saw illegal camp sites throughout the night I would hear these trucks rumbling up and down the road what's really needed in these kind of situations is like a near real-time alerting system that is getting fresh imagery fresh data and can detect when changes happen and then sending an alert to people that may care about that the idea is that they could see almost in real time what is happening in a certain area we've built a platform we called Google Earth engine we have hundreds of feeds of satellite data and so on coming in you can do massively parallel computation with thousands of computers on that data for example where is the forest changing in the last 24 hours it's also possible to see longer-term change in a forest here you can see how deforestation has encroached on the pseudo Ian's territory since 1984 ASIS mapache High School Adama has the take Teresa de Navarre buscando novice fisherman he's a very strong leader and he has found insights about the role that technology could play in helping indigenous people and he said Google if you can help us put ourselves on the map then that will strengthen us for a mafia man to kill of possibly face or so Quincy meant to go to route them to distill territory so that was actually the start of helping indigenous communities with mapping tools and then also doing a better job in our products reflecting territorial sovereignty of indigenous peoples the demand for gia queen ec e non-soy started my stamping a lutugino Hazim pillow food doodle of our children also forest these are the people that are defending the rainforest which are the lungs of the planet for all of us