How can a small and independent media press help in the fight against negationism and pandemic? In this talk I intend to share an insteresting use case from a small and independent media press on a Data Journalism project using FOSS4G to infer whether or not the forest fire occurrence is agravating respiratory syndrome related to COVID-19 in the braziliam Amazon biome, using Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, air poluttion sensors and health public data.

This is a talk about facing negationist government and the pandemic with thoughts about this process and the technical explanations on how we approached this project.

Authors and Affiliations – Felipe Sodré Mendes Barros (1) Juliana Mori (2) Sonaira Souza da Silva (3) Renata Hirota (4) Eduardo Geraque (5)

(1) External Data Scientist (2) InfoAmazonia Director and Journalist (3) Professor at Acres' Federal University (4) External Data Scientist (5) Journalist

Track – Use cases & applications

Topic – FOSS4G implementations in strategic application domains: land management, crisis/disaster response, smart cities, population mapping, climate change, ocean and marine monitoring, etc.

Level – 1 - Principiants. No required specific knowledge is needed.

Language of the Presentation – English