Title :
Firearm Identification System for Australian Police Services
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Edith Cowan Univ., Mount Lawley, WA
Abstract :
The paper briefly describe the research for developing the next generation of optical and photonic techniques applied to cartridge cases and projectiles for the identification of firearms. The research explores a selection of surface profile measurement techniques to recognize and identify unique microscopic markings on the forensic ballistics specimens that have been produced by firearms, and to examine the feasibility of establishing a national online firearm identification database. A developed personal computer based prototype software application and a national distributed system through the Internet is discussed in details.
Keywords :
Internet; ballistics; distributed databases; forensic science; police data processing; weapons; Australian police services; Internet; firearm identification system; forensic ballistics specimens; national distributed system; national online firearm identification database; surface profile measurement techniques; Application software; Australia; Databases; Forensics; Internet; Measurement techniques; Microcomputers; Microscopy; Projectiles; Software prototyping; Ballistics; Firearm identification; Virtual private networks; online database system;
Conference_Titel :
Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling Workshop, 2008. KAM Workshop 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3530-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3531-9
DOI :
10.1109/KAMW.2008.4810640
