WHY ATTEND?

• New crime/accident scene measurement technologies
  
  
  • 3D laser scanning/advanced surveying
  • Calibrated surveillance
  • Automated skull reconstruction
  • Submillimeter scanning
  • Suspect height analysis
  • Blood spatter analysis
  • Vehicle accident scene analysis
  • Aerial LIDAR
• Getting to court
  
  
  • Training service providers to produce evidence-quality deliverables
  • Getting from 2D to 3D
• Security and pre-event planning applications

Forensic & Security Metrology 2008 is the IAFSM's second annual conference focused on using the newest laser scanning and related technologies to perform higher-precision, more accurate measurements of crime and accident scenes and carry out security planning more quickly and confidently than with traditional methods.

Crime scene mapping, accident reconstruction, pre-event security planning, bloodstain pattern analysis, pathology, arson investigation - all require precise, accurate, complete measurements that often must be carried out under severe time pressure. New measuring tools and techniques produce higher-precision, more complete data more quickly than ever before - but also present new challenges to forensic and security specialists. How do you know you're capturing the right data? How can you avoid becoming overwhelmed with extraneous information? What's the best way to present this data and get it accepted by public officials and in the jury room? How can you respond if your data or conclusions are challenged in court?

Sponsored by the International Association of Forensic and Security Metrology (IAFSM), FSM 2008 will answer these questions with real-world case studies, technical demonstrations and training seminars.

Who should attend?

• Law enforcement officers, crime scene investigators and forensic specialists will be apprised of the latest tools and techniques including laser scanning, reverse engineering, electronic theodolites, videogrammetry and others to aid in investigations and increase the accuracy and speed of gathering dimensional data from incidents and crime scenes.
• Legal professionals will be introduced to the newest technologies used in reverse-engineering crime scenes in 3D and 2D, and will learn how to support their case with - or cross-examine against - these tools and methods.
• Medical examiners will learn how submillimeter scanning of injuries to gather dimensional data prior to an autopsy can significantly aid in mapping wounds.
• Specialized investigators - anthropology, fire, blood spatter, ballistics, acoustics, others - will discover the latest instruments, software and techniques, and learn when to employ them in their investigations in order to develop the highest-quality data on which to base well supported analysis and conclusions.
• Security specialists tasked with gathering spatial data for pre-event planning will learn how new technologies can provide better, faster, higher-confidence results.
• Lab technicians and examiners will discover the latest technologies to aid experts in measuring tool marks, skeletal remains, bomb fragments and the like in 3D for further analyses.
• Anthropologists, forensic artists and sculptors can view the newest technologies available to aid in measuring and reconstructing faces and otherwise performing identification based on skeletal remains.
• Service providers will discover opportunities to aid law enforcement agencies, and will learn the basics of how to be part of a forensic team; how not to disturb, destroy or create evidence; and how to testify in court.

Held in conjunction with SPAR 2008

FSM 2008 will take place from March 4 (starting mid-day) through March 6, and will be held in conjunction with SPAR 2008, Spar Point Research's annual conference on 3D laser scanning, dynamic survey, LIDAR and dimensional control.