Cartography · GIS · Design

Maps from the forest.
Design from the field.

I'm Ana Clara Santos — a forest engineer and designer working between cartography, GIS and the web. I help mission-driven projects in conservation, science and small business turn complex territory into clear stories.

Based in Acre, Brazil — the triple frontier of Brazil, Peru & Bolivia.

Portrait of Ana Clara Santos

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.

Cartography & Spatial Analysis

Maps that hold a position.

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

Six-frame small-multiples atlas of Chico Mendes Reserve, 1985 to 2022
Print · Atlas UFAC, 2024

Chico Mendes Reserve · 1985 – 2022

Thirty-seven years of land use and land cover, frame by frame. Built from MapBiomas Collection 8 and Google Earth Engine for my undergraduate monograph.

  • MapBiomas
  • GEE
  • QGIS
Reference map of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve
Print · Reference 2024

RESEX Chico Mendes — Reference Plate

Hydrography, conservation units and the Brazil–Peru–Bolivia triple frontier. Sources: ANA, FUNAI, IBGE, MMA. SIRGAS 2000 / UTM.

  • QGIS
  • Cartography

Currently accepting partners

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.

  • 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

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

Contact

Let's talk.

Project enquiries, partnership ideas, or just to say hello. I read every message and reply within two working days.