Author(s)

Pier Matteo Barone^1,2,3*, Rosa Maria Di Maggio²

¹Archaeology and Classics Program, American University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
²Geoscienze Forensi Italia^®-Forensic Geoscience Italy, Rome, Italy.
³AcISF-Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forensi, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

At a time in which several law enforcement agencies all around the world are facing severe expenditure reviews, the increasing use of low-cost solutions during crime scene investigations (CSI) can be a sustainable solution without being detracting from a scientific and rigorous forensic approach. Recently, some private companies are trying to satisfy the growing needs of the police to have cheaper and faster techniques to survey crime scenes and to obtain results with scientifically high-level outputs, more or less comparable with similar outputs from more expensive instruments. This paper reported results from a crime scene in which a low-cost GPR instrument, a free 3D photogrammetry software, and an open-source geographical information system (GIS) were deployed. The collection, processing, and analyses of these data will provide a very promising starting point for future low-cost and professional applications.

GPR, CSI, Forensic Geoscience, 3D Reconstruction, GIS

Barone, P. and Maggio, R. (2019) Low-Cost CSI Using Forensic GPR, 3D Reconstruction, and GIS. Journal of Geographic Information System, 11, 493-499. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2019.115030.