This project will develop a new surveillanceapproach to greatly increase enforcement effectiveness by intercepting the poachers before they can do harm.
Alessandro Oltramari, a postdoctoral researcher and Christian Lebiere, both from the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon, suggest that this automated video surveillanceapproach could find applications both in military and civil environments.
The Department of Homeland Security is taking a careful approach, wary of costly mistakes in past government attempts to set up electronic border surveillance.