Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Crime Scene Investigations - Novel Concept of Crime Scene Investigations

Mendis, Nanditha Asela

doi:10.15406/frcij.2017.04.00094

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“…The recent investment of UAV technology by UK and international law enforcement enables even the smallest law enforcement agencies to have constant aerial support [33]. With regard to this, the value of UAV technology within law enforcement is becoming increasingly realised worldwide with new capabilities including crime scene photography [33], scene reconstruction [34] and safety assessment [41] being reported frequently within academia and international media, despite some public privacy concerns [42].…”

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A Low Cost Approach to Disturbed Soil Detection Using Low Altitude Digital Imagery from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Parrott

Panter

Morrissey

et al. 2019

Drones

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Until recently, clandestine burial investigations relied upon witness statements to determine target search areas of soil and vegetation disturbance. Due to this, remote sensing technologies are increasingly used to detect fresh clandestine graves. However, despite the increased capabilities of remote sensing, clandestine burial searches remain resourcefully intensive as the police have little access to the technology when it is required. In contrast to this, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is increasingly popular amongst law enforcement worldwide. As such, this paper explores the use of digital imagery collected from a low cost UAV for the aided detection of disturbed soil sites indicative of fresh clandestine graves. This is done by assessing the unaltered UAV video output using image processing tools to detect sites of disturbance, therefore highlighting previously unrecognised capabilities of police UAVs. This preliminary investigation provides a low cost rapid approach to detecting fresh clandestine graves, further supporting the use of UAV technology by UK police.

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A Low Cost Approach to Disturbed Soil Detection Using Low Altitude Digital Imagery from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Parrott

Panter

Morrissey

et al. 2019

Drones

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“…An overview of a range of applications can be found in Murray et al [7], Horsman [8], and Mishra [9] provide preliminary introductions to the technology of the time, largely based on crime scene recording as opposed to search—the topic of this work. Mendis et al [10] and Urbanová, et al [11] do much the same as the above authors, with a critique of more up‐to‐date technology used in surface crime scene documentation. Evers & Masters [12] used a modified Go‐Pro camera mounted on a Dia Jiang Innovations (DJI) Phantom 1 drone to visually assess ground disturbances and more specifically process their data for near‐infrared (NIR) monitoring of vegetation.…”

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Drone aerial imagery for the simulation of a neonate burial based on the geoforensic search strategy (GSS)

Rocke

Ruffell

Donnelly³

2021

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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The Geoforensic Search Strategy (GSS) combines the experiences of geologists and police/law enforcement officers in a new and innovative approach that details best practice forensic search protocols and procedures and fundamental geological field techniques [1]. This blended approach enables an appropriate selection of search assets to be identified. The GSS provides a pragmatic, proportionate, and cost-effective methodology for the Highest Level of Assurance (HLA) for the presence or absence of a target suspected by the law enforcement officer to have been buried as part of a criminal or terrorist act. The GSS was developed over 25 years ago during the search for missing (presumed buried) child victims of homicide on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennine Hills, located in northern England [1][2][3][4][5]. The GSS is an evaluation of diggability and an assessment of the likelihood of detecting a buried target. The GSS is based on the

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“…which is important through which a person can see through each other. It is called as the special type of a system through which the devices can easily manage the electromagnetic radiation and to allow coverage of the area (Mendis, 2016). It is only focused on a single point or the area.…”

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3D Crime Scene Investigation

Dass¹,

Pandoh²,

Choudhary

2020

IJRESM

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There are many advancements are there in the technologies are there and one of the things which have become very famous is the 3D imaging of the technologies. There has been a widespread belief that this system is there. In this system there are different hard levels of the crime scenes that are tackled. There are lots of crime scenes which can be reconstructed. The details are kept mainly in the millimeter based techniques which have been used. The system which is used is called the 3D based imaging system. NASA the one of the famous space technologies which are there is also working in the matter to make the crime scenes to be properly investigated.

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Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Crime Scene Investigations - Novel Concept of Crime Scene Investigations

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

A Low Cost Approach to Disturbed Soil Detection Using Low Altitude Digital Imagery from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

A Low Cost Approach to Disturbed Soil Detection Using Low Altitude Digital Imagery from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Drone aerial imagery for the simulation of a neonate burial based on the geoforensic search strategy (GSS)

3D Crime Scene Investigation

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