You can now explore the Amazon on Google Maps Street View

Among the features of Google Maps, "Escaping a couple coming out of a love hotel", "Shooting a house while burning", "Eagerly shooting something that should not be copied", "Looking inside the house" Street View is a street view spreading various problems such as not having even come to Street View yet yet, but still it is convenient and it is now unlikely that we can see the Amazon River Basin .

Google Japan Blog: Explore the Amazon River Basin in Street View
http://googlejapan.blogspot.jp/2012/03/blog-post_22.html

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This shoot was realized in response to the invitation of the local environmental protection organization "Fundamental Protection Fund (FAS)", "It is possible to access this rich and diverse region of the Amazon River basin from all over the world via the Internet We want to make it ", so shooting of vast rivers, rainforests and surrounding villages was started in August 2011 for the" Rio Negro protected area "around the Rio Negro (Negro river) that pours into the Amazon River, finally That is why it is realized.

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Mainstream of the Negro river

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Tributary where forest grows

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The small village of Tumbira, the largest settlement in the protected area

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Explore the forest of Amazon

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Collected area of ​​Brazil nuts

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Dense forest animals

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For these shooting, we installed a trike (tricycle) on the ship and sailed, and also used a camera fitted with a fisheye lens used for shooting business photos, and panoramic images joined more than 50,000 still images It is said that it was made. The following is a movie that summarizes the situation.

Tour the Amazon Basin with Street View - YouTube


Beginning with the introduction of Street View


One ship going awash in the Amazon River


Above that, Street View camera


A woman in charge


Very intense momentum


If you look carefully, the camera is not on board, but a tricycle for street view shooting is on board





The camera will stretch


Clown


Cigarette butt


In addition, I will boldly infiltrate the backdrop of the Amazon for the shooting


Shooting with a tripod stand up like this where you can not go


Where will the destinations of the next Street View become?