Firearm Identification System for Australian Police Services

Author

Li, Dongguang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Edith Cowan Univ., Mount Lawley, WA

fYear

2008

fDate

21-22 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

911

Lastpage

914

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KAMW.2008.4810640

Filename

4810640