Links to Information on SIVAM

The following links are to information about Brazil's new program to monitor the Amazon Rainforest. It involves the Raytheon Corporation, an American company, as well as several other Brazilian corporations, Embraer and ATECH.
Raytheon is providing both aerial-mounted sensors as well as 14 state-of-the-art fixed base air traffic control radars as well as 6 transportable radars. Embraer is supplying specially modified remote sensing aircraft, which will have the sensors attached to them.
 We will be meeting with the technical director of Raytheon Command, Control, Communication and Information Systems, Paul Ferraro, hopefully sometime next week. I have thought about some questions I would like to ask him. They are also listed below.

http://www.raytheon.com/products/sivam/index.html
-overview of Raytheon's involvement of the project as well as a general summary of what the project aims to do
http://www.aviationtoday.com/reports/avionics/previous/0602/
-overview of what exactly SIVAM plans to do with respect to monitoring the rainforest, specifically with aircraft and aerial observation; mentions some about the antiquated infrastructure of the Amazon region
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/eo-02zb.html
-news brief on inauguration of SIVAM as well as specifics on technologies will be used as well as people involved and predicted impact





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