poaching. We provided key research advances to
enable this deployment; this has provided a practical
benefit to patrol planners and patrollers. The deployment of PAWS patrols will continue at the site in
Malaysia. Panthera has seen the utility of PAWS, and
we are taking steps to expand PAWS to its other sites.
This future expansion and maintenance of PAWS will
be taken over by Armorway, 3 a security games company (starting in spring 2016); Armorway has significant experience in supporting security-games-based
software deployments.
Acknowledgement
This research was supported by MURI Grant
W911NF-11-1-0332. We also thank our partners in
the field who made these tests possible and subcon-
tract from Cornell University for NSF Grant CCF-
1522054.
Notes
1. For the security of animals and patrollers, no latitude/longitude information is presented in this article.
2. The Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART),
www.smartconservationsoftware.org.
3. The company has now changed its name. See
avataai.com.
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