The virtual watershed game is coupled with an Augmented Reality (AR) app. The app is loosely modeled after Pokémon GO, an app-based AR game that most students are familiar with. The AR app asks the students to identify natural and engineered features such as culverts, embankments, detention and retention basins, and discharge channels within their watersheds. Students identify these features in the “real-world” and learn about their role in maintaining sustainable water resources (both quality and quantity) within their watersheds while earning coins for use in the VR game. The scoreboard of top players will also be provided to interconnect students involving in the same tasks in real time.
The data contains

• Latitude and longitude
• An Image of the site (e.g., Pfluger Fountain)
• and a description (what it is and what purpose does it serve)

The example data is available here. Students are also required to collect more water features on campus for their project.
When users move close to the (GPS) location, scan a pattern sticked at the location, capture the image similar to the stored site image (image recognition), etc. --> A sound track is played to notify users (that they are close to a water feature). A multiple choice question will popup. Users gain points for correct answers.
After that, the AR contents will appear. The displyed AR contents could be

• The description of water feature (users can interact and explore further, such as the Pfluger Fountain html)
• The functional AR model
• The malfunctional AR model
• Be creative! The main purpose is about education of water resources.

The watershed development and management game is envisioned as a "multiplayer" game modeled after the classic Monopoly and SimCity. Students are provided a fixed amount of coins and a distinct parcel of land (which is assigned randomly) on which they can either build or expand urban areas, grow crops or engage in industrial activities. All these activities release pollutants (biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and nutrients) into streams and creeks. The release of these pollutants will affect the in-stream health which is measured by decreases in dissolved oxygen (DO) and increases in algae. Critical thresholds of DO and algae (cholorophyll-a) will be used to simulate catastrophic events such as fish kills and loss of riparian habitats. A set of compliance points (CP) are set up on the stream segment to monitor water quality in the stream.
The youtube video above gives an example but not how your game needs to progress. You may come up with more/different playing rules for this game.

Source of Elevation Data:

• USGS nationalmap.gov
• terrain.party --> Vinh will show in his Unity demo today (March 6). More details in Vinh's paper.
• Demo Project 2

More data of underground water:

• Well location and historical data
• Raster data.
• More details in our paper.

Precipitation data:

• NOAA - National Climate Data Center (NCDC) is the primary source of precipitation data in the US
• USGS and many other (local) agencies also collect precipitation data - Texas Agrilife extension
• Longer-term gridded precipitation data for both the US and global:
• PRISM
• CPC gridded data
• Climate Research Unit global data
• Radar (NEXRAD) data is also available from NCDC.

Here are examples in ThreeJS and javascipt:

• Ammo.js physics terrain heightfield demo
• Elevation map by Kevin Newcombe
• NASA satellite imagery and elevation data to create a 3-D rendering of the Gale Crater on Mars.
• http://david.li/fluid/
• http://dust.awevation.com/
• https://jayweeks.com/water-underground/
• http://codeflow.org/webgl/craftscape/
• https://github.com/mraad/space-time-ripple

VR can provide an immersive learning tool to help communities prepare for flooding and make the right evacuation decision.

Here is Scott Blechman and Benjamin Fox Bolduc proposal. This proposal has been approved and can not be replicated:
The project will be an AR app on the iPhone, a game playable using the Texas Tech campus. We will load a topography/elevation map of the campus onto the scene, and fill it with virtual water over the course of a couple of minutes. The player will need to use this time to safely make it to higher ground, avoiding as much water as possible. The player will receive points for successfully evacuating, and points will be reduced for entering potentially dangerous situations such as crossing flooded roads. Scores will be synced to a cloud server and associated with anonymous IDs, though the IDs can be replaced by player names if they so choose.