Committee to Assess the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database ; Daniel L. Cork [and others], editors.
Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
2008.
1 online resource (xxi, 322 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index.
pt. 1. Context for ballistic imaging analysis -- Introduction -- Firearms and ammunition : physics, manufacturing, and sources of variability -- Firearms identification and the use of ballistic evidence -- pt. 2. Current ballistic imaging and databases -- Current ballistic imaging technology -- Current ballistic image databases : NIBIN and the state reference databases -- Operational and technical enhancements to NIBIN -- Three-dimensional measurement and ballistic imaging -- pt. 3. Implications for a national reference ballistic image database -- Experimental evidence on sources of variability and imaging standards -- Feasibility of a national reference ballistic image database -- pt. 4. Future directions -- Microstamping : alternative technology for tracing to point of sale -- Best standards for future developments in computer-assisted firearms identification.
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Ballistic imaging.
9780309117241
Bullets-- Identification, Databases.
Electronic records-- United States-- Management-- Data processing.
Forensic ballistics, Atlases-- Data processing-- Government policy-- United States.
Images, Photographic, Databases.
Bullets-- Identification.
Forensic ballistics.
Images, Photographic.
LAW-- Forensic Science.
United States.
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Cork, Daniel L.
National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee to Assess the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database.