An associated citizen science project (and game) called Cropland Capture uses crowd-sourced data to validate land cover and build more accurate, hybridised, global maps of where cropland lies, rewarding players as they gather points.
While the organisation stressed that there is no panacea to poverty, the abundance of data it has gathered points to an inescapable conclusion that there must be greater focus on social spending and less on chasing after an outdated fantasy that if you maximise growth, everyone benefits.
Gathering points and completing missions leads you to higher levels, where you eventually choose a character type.
Mike Barnstein, research analyst for the Gartner Group, says the concept is "a little like Skeeball, in that you gather points for doing certain actions on a web site, registering information about yourself.
Gathering points for consuming, sharing, promoting and engaging, they can cash-in to either higher member levels or take it one step further and partner with retail.
Ali al-Sadig, a government spokesman, said Sudan's government condemned the attack, adding that evidence investigators had gathered pointed to one of the rebel factions in Darfur.
As the examples I have just presented show, the information and intelligence we have gathered point to an active and systematic effort on the part of the Iraqi regime to keep key materials and people from the inspectors in direct violation of Resolution 1441.
But as I sat on the beach in my sensible swimsuit, white English thighs sizzling, my Lonely Planet guidebook propped open on my head as a sun hat, a crowd of children gathered, pointing, laughing and shouting "Camarão!" (which means prawn).
It employs the k-means clustering algorithm to gather similar points together in the spatial domain and uses the maximum normal vector deviation as a measure of cluster scatter to partition the gathered point sets into a series of sub-clusters in the feature field.
