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Articles on how law enforcement agencies are using 3D laser scanning for forensics and public safety applications.
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- POB — An A-MAZE-ING Feat. "Rapid response and 3D laser scanning technology aid the rebuilding of California's Macarthur Maze interchange. At 3:41 a.m. on Sunday, April 29, 2007, an explosion and a huge ball of fire lit up the night skies along the east side of the San Francisco Bay in Oakland, Calif. A tanker truck carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline crashed into a guardrail, overturned and caught fire on the eastbound 580 connector ramp from Berkeley to southbound I-880 to San Jose, located within the I-80/580/880 interchange."
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- Forensic Magazine — Cutting Edge 3-D Reconstruction. "The introduction of high speed laser scannin has greatly increased the accuracy and realism available to the forensic animator. Combining this accuracy with laser-assisted photogrammetry is enabling experts, working closely with forensic animators, to accurately reconstruct events that would have been impossible or financially prohibitive, a few years ago."
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- Professional Surveyor — Forensic and Damage Assessment Surveys. "Surveyors and other measurement professionals often find themselves 'on-call' for certain types of clients. In addition to providing valuable services for planned projects such as land, infrastructure, commercial, and industrial development, surveyors are periodically called on to respond to both natural and man-made incidents. With Hurrican Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans as a recent, sobering reminder of both natural and man-made incidents, this article examines the rapidly growing role of high-definition surveying as a valuable tool for better servicing these types of needs."
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- Government Technology — Crime Scene Investigation. "There were more than 40 witnesses to the incident, he said, and the scene itself was approximately 400 feet by 2,000 feet -- an entire city block with businesses and apartments. Using HDS technology, Fries scanned the scene, the involved vehicles (at the impound yard) and used photographic evidence to reconstruct a virtual model of the incident that could be examined from almost any point of view."
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In March of 2007 Leica Geosystems participated in a forensic mapping exercise at an outdoor mock crime scene staged by members of the Albuquerque Police Department and City of Sugar Land, TX, Police Department. Diagrams can be downloaded below... |
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