3D documentation of footwear impressions and tyre tracks in snow with high resolution optical surface scanning

Forensic Science International

Volumn 171, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 157-164

  Buck, Ursula ^a,b   Albertini, Nicola ^b   Naether, Silvio ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Canton Police Bern   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D documentation; 3D optical surface scanning; Footwear impression; Forensic science; Snow print; Tyre impression

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CERAMICS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DOCUMENTATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATERIALS; METEOROLOGY; MOTOR VEHICLE TIRE; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL SURFACE SCANNING;

EID: 34547697560     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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