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Tobias Sturn

Research Scholar

Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group

Advancing Systems Analysis Program

Biography

Tobias Sturn received his Master’s degree from the FH Technikum Vienna in Game Engineering and Simulation in 2010. He then worked as project assistant at the Computer Graphics Institute at TU Vienna. In the Landspotting Project he has been collaborating with IIASA to design and develop serious games for improving global land cover. He joined the Ecosystems Services and Management Program (ESM) at IIASA in April 2014, to design and develop serious games like Cropland Capture, Picture Pile or FotoQuest Go.

Mr. Sturn's interests cover human-computer interaction, computer graphics and all aspects of gaming, especially games with a purpose and edutainment. With his game development company Emoak he has published a number of games like 'Let’s Dance” or “Paper Climb'. The latter game has been finalist for the Content Award and Future Zone Award. With the help of his latest serious game development 'Cropland Capture' more than 4 million square kilometers of global land surface have already been validated to date by players to improve global land cover maps. The game has been widely featured in the media such as by NPR and The Guardian.


Last update: 13 NOV 2020

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Laso Bayas, J.C. , Moorthy, I. , Sturn, T., Karner, M., Perger, C., Fraisl, D. , Domian, D., Gardeazabal, A., Vargas, L., Capellan, S., Danylo, O., Lesiv, M. , Dürauer, M., Dresel, C., Hager, G. , Saad, M., Subash, A., Smith, B., Joshi, N., Schepaschenko, D. , McCallum, I. , See, L. , & Fritz, S. (2018). Citizen Scientists Monitoring the Environment: The Latest Apps from IIASA. In: Citizen Observatories for natual hazards and Water Management, 27-30 November 2018, Venice, Italy.

Lesiv, M. , Bayas, J.C.L., See, L. , Duerauer, M., Dahlia, D., Durando, N., Hazarika, R., Sahariah, P.K., Vakolyuk, M., Blyshchyk, V., Bilous, A., Perez-Hoyos, A., Gengler, S., Prestele, R., Bilous, S., Akhtar, I., Singha, K., Choudhury, S.B., Chetri, T., Malek, Z. , Bungnamei, K., Saikia, A., Sahariah, D., Narzary, W., Danylo, O., Sturn, T., Karner, M., McCallum, I. , Schepaschenko, D. , Molchanova, E., Fraisl, D. , Moorthy, I. , & Fritz, S. (2018). Estimating the Global Distribution of Field Size using Crowdsourcing.

Lesiv, M. , See, L. , Laso Bayas, J.C. , Sturn, T., Schepaschenko, D. , Karner, M., Moorthy, I. , McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2018). Characterizing the Spatial and Temporal Availability of Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery in Google Earth and Microsoft Bing Maps as a Source of Reference Data. Land 7 (4) p. 118. 10.3390/land7040118.

Olteanu-Raimond, A.-M., Jolivet, L., Van Damme, M.-D., Royer, T., Fraval, L., See, L. , Sturn, T., Karner, M., Moorthy, I. , & Fritz, S. (2018). An Experimental Framework for Integrating Citizen and Community Science into Land Cover, Land Use, and Land Change Detection Processes in a National Mapping Agency. Land 7 (3) p. 103. 10.3390/land7030103.

Danylo, O., Moorthy, I. , Sturn, T., See, L. , Laso Bayas, J.-C. , Domian, D., Fraisl, D. , Giovando, C., Girardot, B., Kapur, R., Matthieu, P.-P., & Fritz, S. (2018). The Picture Pile Tool for Rapid Image Assessment: A Demonstration using Hurricane Matthew. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences IV-4 27-32. 10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-27-2018.