Landspotting: A Serious iPad Game for Improving Global Land Cover

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• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Landspotting - Creating Games for Improving Land Cover
• Date: July 2013
• ISBN: 978-3-87907-532-4
• Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Organization: Z_GIS - Department of Geoinformatics
• Location: University of Salzburg
• Lecturer: Tobias Sturn
• Booktitle: Proceedings of the GI-Forum 2013 -- Creating the GISociety
• Conference date: 2. July 2013 – 5. July 2013
• Pages: 81 – 90
• Keywords: Landspotting, Serious Game, Improving Global Land Cover

Abstract

Current satellite-derived land cover products, which are very important for answering many crucial research and policy-related questions, show huge disagreements. In this paper we present a serious game for the iPad with the purpose of improving global land cover data. We describe the game, discuss the design decisions made and outline the challenges faced while developing the game. We evaluate how well the players are able to annotate land cover by comparing the game against expert validations collected using the Geo-Wiki tool and provide evidence that games can be a useful way to increase the quality of global land cover.

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@inproceedings{STURN-2013-LSI,
  title =      "Landspotting: A Serious iPad Game for Improving Global Land
               Cover",
  author =     "Tobias Sturn and Dietmar Pangerl and Linda See and Steffen
               Fritz and Michael Wimmer",
  year =       "2013",
  abstract =   "Current satellite-derived land cover products, which are
               very important for answering many crucial research and
               policy-related questions, show huge disagreements. In this
               paper we present a serious game for the iPad with the
               purpose of improving global land cover data. We describe the
               game, discuss the design decisions made and outline the
               challenges faced while developing the game. We evaluate how
               well the players are able to annotate land cover by
               comparing the game against expert validations collected
               using the Geo-Wiki tool and provide evidence that games can
               be a useful way to increase the quality of global land
               cover.",
  month =      jul,
  isbn =       "978-3-87907-532-4",
  publisher =  "Verlag der \"{O}sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
               Austrian Academy of Sciences Press ",
  organization = "Z_GIS - Department of Geoinformatics",
  location =   "University of Salzburg",
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of the GI-Forum 2013 -- Creating the GISociety",
  pages =      "81--90",
  keywords =   "Landspotting, Serious Game, Improving Global Land Cover",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2013/STURN-2013-LSI/",
}