Regional Wildlife Disease Hazard Software

Author
Hanley, Brenda
Mitchell, Corey I.
Abbott, Rachel C.
Hollingshead, Nicholas
Carstensen, Michelle
Walsh, Daniel
Christensen, Sonja
Storm, Daniel
Kelly, James
Them, Cara
Ahmed, Md Sohel
Miller, Lauren
Schuler, Krysten
Abstract

The Regional Wildlife Disease Hazard Software displays the hazards associated with the introduction and spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in select states and provinces in the eastern United States (US) and Canada (CAN). The Regional Wildlife Disease Hazard Software was adapted from the Wildlife Disease Hazard Software (Hanley et al. 2021) to display pooled data and results up to the continental scale. The R scripts of the Regional Wildlife Disease Hazard Software contain a sequential network of commands that format the geospatial files, surveillance (testing) data, hazard (anthropogenic) data, and demographic (deer) data and launch the user interface (UI) of the interactive software to depict pooled results at the continental scale. The Regional Wildlife Disease Hazard Software includes (redacted) hazard and (redacted) deer demographic data from Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin, US and Ontario, CAN, but can be modified to include other states and provinces.

Description
This software is being shared under a MIT license. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Sponsorship
Financial support comes from (1) Michigan Disease Initiative – Optimizing CWD Surveillance: Regional Synthesis of Demographic, Spatial, and Transmission-Risk Factors (2019); (2) Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - Modeling Risk of Infection for Individually Harvested Deer & Estimating Prevalence When Sampling is Limited (2020); (3) Michigan Disease Initiative - SOP4CWD Dashboard: A Web Application for Disease Visualization and Data-Driven Decisions (2020); (4) Multistate Conservation Grant Program - Surveillance Optimization Project for Chronic Wasting Disease: Streamlining a Web Application for Disease Visualization and Data-Driven Decisions (2021).
Date Issued
2022-01-12
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Related To
https://cwhl.vet.cornell.edu/project/sop4cwd
Type
software
Accessibility Feature
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