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Authors:
Sven Becker
Michael Spranger
Florian Heinke
Steffen Grunert
Dirk Labudde
Keywords: forensic; resilience engineering; framework; 3D reconstruction; photogrammetry
Abstract:
Serious crime scenes or disaster sites with many victims after natural disasters, airplane crashes or terrorist attacks require extensive and comprehensive investigations to clarify all circumstances leading to the event, to identify the victims and to find the responsible people. The results of investigations do not only serve to prosecute the perpetrators, yet are mainly used to develop preventive strategies and to strengthen the resilience of the society. 3D reconstructions of crime scenes and disaster sites provide a quick and comprehensive method to support the work of investigators digitally. The detailed reconstruction of the scene allows not only a long term documentation, yet also the simulation of alternative scenarios. To create a 3D reconstruction a large number of parameters has to be taken into account in order to make the necessary decisions. To this point there is no standardized procedure for the reconstruction of serious crime scenes or disaster sites. The framework presented in this paper can serve as a simple guide to create a 3D reconstruction. However, it can also be easily implemented in an already existing forensic process chain of investigative services. In this sense, it can form the basis for a standardization and thus ensure the comparability of different models. Additionally, a detailed description of an application of this framework for a real crime scene is given.
Pages: 1 to 12
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2018. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2018
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-261x