Cartography · GIS · Design

Maps from the forest. Design from the field.

I'm Ana Clara Santos — a forest engineer and designer based in Acre, Brazil, at the triple frontier of Brazil, Peru & Bolivia.

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  • Forest Engineer · Universidade Federal do Acre
  • Research · Cornell University
  • Technical Assistant · CPI-Acre
  • Founder · ACS Consultorias
  • 400+people trained
  • 37years of satellite data analysed
  • 3indigenous territories mapped

About

A forest engineer who codes,
and a designer who reads satellite imagery.

I trained as a forest engineer at the Universidade Federal do Acre, and my undergraduate research traced thirty-seven years of land-use change inside the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, using MapBiomas data and Google Earth Engine to ask how policy, settlement and illegal deforestation reshape the western Amazon.

Since 2021 I've worked across three worlds: as a research assistant at Cornell University on aspirational well-being for Amazonian youth; as a technical assistant at CPI-Acre, supporting indigenous territorial monitoring on the Nawa, Nukini and Cabeceira do Rio Acre lands; and as the founder of ACS Consultorias, which has reached more than 400 people through geotechnology training and environmental regularization in the Amazon.

I design websites for the same kinds of clients, clean, calm, content-first sites for consultancies and conservation projects who deserve better than a template.

Through ACS Consultorias, I have delivered geotechnology training and environmental regularisation support to more than 400 people across the Amazon. My research mapped 37 years of land-cover change in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve using MapBiomas and Google Earth Engine.

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What I do

From satellite imagery to stakeholder-ready outputs.

From satellite imagery and field data to publication-ready maps and interactive web tools, for organisations working at the intersection of land, forest, compliance and community.

Conservation GIS & Remote Sensing

Land-cover analysis, deforestation interpretation and publication-ready maps for NGOs, research teams and environmental organisations.

Environmental Regularisation Mapping

CAR/PRA-style spatial documentation, field-data organisation and map deliverables for rural producers, consultancies and legal/agronomic partners.

Interactive Web Maps & Dashboards

Public-facing maps, project portals and territorial intelligence tools for organisations that need their data to move people.

Geotechnology Training

QGIS, MapBiomas, Google Earth Engine and field data workflows for teams and organisations needing in-house GIS capacity.

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Cartography & Spatial Analysis

Maps that hold a position.

A small portfolio of recent work, interactive web maps and printed atlases.

Where the work has been.

Two interactive layers: the territories I have worked in, and the protected areas (RESEX, indigenous lands, Flonas, RDS, ESEC and state units) I have supported. Tap a marker for context.

Territories of work experience

  • Acre, Brazil
  • Rondônia, Brazil
  • Amazonas, Brazil
  • Peru
  • Bolivia
  • Germany
  • Turkey
  • United States
Live web map
Web · Interactive 2025

Kaçmaz Arsa, Interactive Land Map

Parcels, zoning overlays and surrounding amenities for a Turkish land-investment firm, rendered to feel less like a GIS export and more like a brochure.

  • Mapbox GL
  • Turf.js
  • QGIS
Open the live map

Print · Atlas, UFAC, 2024

Chico Mendes Reserve · 1985 – 2022

Thirty-seven years of land cover, read frame by frame. Scroll through the captions on the right; the atlas on the left follows you.

  1. 1985 land use and land cover plate of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve with a regional view plus a fine-scale zoom-in inset 1985

    1985 Setting the scene

    Where the reserve sits on the map

    Before reading land-cover patterns, the regional frame: the Chico Mendes RESEX outlined against the rivers of the western Amazon, the Mamoadate and Cabeceira do Rio Acre indigenous lands at its western edge, and Xapuri and Assis Brasil at the southern margin.

  2. MapBiomas-derived 1985 land use and land cover plate of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve 1985

    1985 Baseline

    Continuous canopy, a thin agricultural margin

    First MapBiomas-derived land-cover plate for 1985. Deep forest (Floresta) fills the reserve interior; a fishbone of federal settlements and SIGEF properties clusters along the BR-317 corridor to the south, with agribusiness (Agronegócio) below it.

  3. Six-panel temporal grid of MapBiomas land-cover data for the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, 1985, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020 and 2022 1985 → 2022

    1985 → 2022 The temporal arc

    Thirty-seven years, side by side

    Six panels from MapBiomas Collection 8: 1985, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020, 2022. The reserve's interior holds, but the agricultural margin (yellow) widens visibly each decade along the BR-317 corridor.

  4. 1985 land use and land cover plate of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, alternate framing showing the eastern flank 1985

    1985 Reserve in detail

    The boundary, still legible

    Same year, alternate framing. The eastern flank of the RESEX against the dense mosaic of federal settlements and SIGEF properties south of the BR-317.

  5. 1985 land use and land cover for the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve with a fine-scale inset on the agricultural frontier 1985

    1985 A 1:10 km zoom

    Closer at the frontier

    Regional context plus a fine-scale inset. The ramais (orange) opened by colonists branch off the BR-317 into federal settlement and SIGEF properties. Forest still dominates inside the reserve.

  6. 1985 land use and land cover for the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, finest-scale detail of ramais and small clearings just outside the reserve 1985

    1985 Finest scale

    Where canopy meets the fence-line

    Closest cut of the 1985 data. The linear pattern of cleared ramais and small clearings just outside the reserve sets the trajectory of land-use change that the temporal arc then plays out.

1985 land use and land cover map of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, derived from MapBiomas data, showing forest, agribusiness, indigenous lands and protected areas
Print · Land Use & Cover 2024

RESEX Chico Mendes, 1985 Land Use & Cover

MapBiomas-derived land use and land cover plate for the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in 1985: forest, agribusiness, surrounding indigenous lands and conservation units. From the UFAC undergraduate monograph (Venâncio, 2024). Sources: MapBiomas Coll. 8, ANA, FUNAI, IBGE, MMA, INCRA. SIRGAS 2000 / UTM.

  • MapBiomas
  • QGIS
  • Cartography

Design for the web

Websites for projects
that need to look as serious as the work they do.

m21consultancy.co.uk

Lead designer & developer · 2025

M21 Consultancy

Editorial-style site for a London-based engineering consultancy.
kacmazarsa.com

Lead designer & developer · 2025

Kaçmaz Arsa

A bilingual property-investment site with embedded interactive map.
kraftsonnenenergie.de

Collaborator · 2024

Kraft Sonnenenergie

Contributing designer on a German solar-energy company's bilingual presence.

Environmental regularisation infrastructure

MVP · Work in progress

Envreg is taking shape,
and I'm looking for partners.

Envreg is a service for environmental regularization in rural Brazil, built on the same fieldwork, GIS pipelines and community engagement my team has used since 2021. The platform is in active development, and I'm currently inviting partners: regional agronomists, environmental lawyers, fintech operators and investors who care about the Amazon.

Envreg combines GIS evidence pipelines, legal/agronomic partner workflows and producer-facing documentation, built for Acre, Rondônia and southern Amazonas, where the regularisation gap is largest.

  • Co-design the product roadmap and pricing model
  • Bring regional expertise, legal, agronomic or financial
  • Share early-mover access to our network in Acre, Rondônia & southern Amazonas
Become a partner See the Envreg page →

Also building ACS Consultorias, environmental regularization & geotechnology in Brazil.

My B2B and B2C consultancy supporting rural producers, indigenous communities and conservation projects across the Amazon since 2021.

acsconsultorias.com.br

Organisations & Partnerships

An ecosystem of collaborators.

Organisations I have worked with directly, indirectly, as a partner, consultant, employee or volunteer, in Brazil and abroad.

Government & Public Institutions

  • ICMBio
  • SEMA-Acre
  • SEMA-Amazonas
  • INCRA
  • IPAM
  • FUNTAC
  • FAPAC

Civil Society, Cooperatives & Community

  • CPI-Acre
  • CNS
  • COIAB
  • Comitê Chico Mendes
  • AMIFORT
  • AMARU
  • Cooperxapuri
  • Cooperiaco
  • COOPERAR
  • SOS Amazônia

Private Sector & Consultancies

  • ACS Consultorias Founder & CEO, present
  • VCP Consultorias Freelancer, present
  • TECMAN Florestas Freelancer

Business Support & Acceleration

  • SEBRAE Nacional
  • SEBRAE Acre
  • Neo Ventures
  • Inova Amazônia (acceleration programme)

Academic & International

  • UFAC
  • Cornell University Research Assistant, USA
  • LHA Londres Volunteer exchange, UK

ICMBio Integrated Management Nuclei (NGIs) I have worked alongside

  • NGI Chico Mendes
  • NGI Sena Madureira
  • NGI Cruzeiro do Sul
  • NGI Boca do Acre
  • NGI Lábrea
  • NGI Guajará-Mirim
  • NGI Cuniã-Jacundá
  • NGI Tarauacá / Santa Rosa do Purus

Curriculum Vitae

A timeline along the baseline.

From education to current consulting work, scroll down to follow the path.

  1. Education

  2. Jul 2015 – May 2024

    B.Sc. Forest Engineering

    Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC)

    Monograph: Tendência na Evolução Temporal do Uso e Cobertura da Terra na Reserva Extrativista Chico Mendes — Um Estudo com Base em Dados do MapBiomas (1985–2022).

  3. Professional experience

  4. May 2021 – present

    Founder & CEO

    ACS Consultorias

    Environmental regularisation and geotechnology training across the Amazon, 400+ people reached.

  5. Apr 2023 – Oct 2025

    Research Assistant

    Cornell University (USA), Dr. Renata Leitão

    Aspirational well-being for Amazonian youth.

  6. Apr 2021 – Jul 2023

    Technical Assistant

    CPI-Acre (Comissão Pró-Índio do Acre)

    Indigenous territorial monitoring, Nawa, Nukini and Cabeceira do Rio Acre lands.

  7. Sep 2019 – Apr 2021

    Intern

    INCRA (Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária)

    Land-reform and conservation analysis.

  8. Other relevant experience

  9. Jul – Aug 2025

    Volunteer exchange

    LHA Londres (United Kingdom)

    Six-month period in England, international exchange and language immersion.

  10. Aug 2017 – Feb 2018

    Volunteer

    Comitê Chico Mendes

    Conservation and memory work around the legacy of Chico Mendes.

  11. Languages

    • Portuguese native
    • English B2
    • Spanish A2
    • French A1
Portrait of Ana Clara Santos Venâncio
Ana Clara Santos · Acre, BR · 11°00′S 70°15′W

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