The Complete Guide to 3D Data Capture for Crash Scene Investigation
3D technology solutions can help you more efficiently document crash scenes and deliver more precise and accurate information, creating a win for your agency, the prosecutor’s office, and the victim.
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- How 3D solutions help you perform your job quicker and more accurately throughout every step of the crash scene investigation process.
- The features and benefits of FARO 3D laser scanners and crash reconstruction software.
- The best applications for specific tools and solutions.
- Real-life experiences from crash scene investigators who have switched to FARO 3D solutions.
- Resources you can use to fund 3D technology for your agency or department.
How 3D Technology Improves a Crash Scene Investigation Workflow
3D mapping solutions simplify every step of crash reconstruction and investigation – from the crash site to presenting evidence in the courtroom – all while delivering incredibly precise, realistic results.
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- Evaluate & Capture
On-Scene Evidence
Today
Spend hours capturing the scene using slower manual methods. Leave more room for human error and keep officers on scene for longer in risky roadside locations.
With 3D Tools
Quickly and accurately capture the entire crash scene, from the overview to up-close documentation of vehicle damage, using a FARO® Focus Laser Scanner and/or a handheld mapping unit.
With the FARO Focus 3D Laser Scanner, you can capture 60-120 million data points per second.
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- Prepare Data
for Analysis
Today
Manually archive the data collected at the scene from different sources, including all hand measurements, notes and photographs.
With 3D Tools
Maintain the integrity of the data and archive it as soon as you’re done scanning the scene. Because 3D scans capture every detail, it’s easy to go back and look at evidence that may not be deemed important until later in the investigation.
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- Process and
Manage Data
Today
Log and/or process the data you’ve captured from various sources manually, or with clunky 3D tools that fail to capture the complexity of crash investigation.
With 3D Tools
Merge the data to create compelling deliverables utilizing the power of the FARO® SCENE Software. Add measurements and annotations, along with additional scene images, videos and reports to accurately depict the full scene.
Import data into FARO® Zone 3D Software from any laser scanner to take advantage of the full 3D environment you’ve captured to create vivid, realistic and immersive diagrams.
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- Analyze Data and
Create Diagrams
Today
Manually create diagrams and stitch together photographs, individual measurements and other 2D evidence to try and create a complete picture of the crash scene.
With 3D Tools
Analyze and show every angle of the scene with:
- Crash animations based on EDR or evidence captured in scan data
- Scaled diagrams
- Accurate views or videos from the witness or driver’s perspective
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- Prepare Documents
for Trial
Today
Compiling the trail package...
With 3D Tools
Compiling the substantive trial package…
We wanted to make sure that the person viewing the data can understand what we’re saying by showing them the pictures we’re showing them. And when you compare the total station to a scanner, there’s no competition there.
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- Prepare & Present
Evidence
Today
Compile evidence using photographs, 2D diagrams and other evidence that juries may not understand or be able to clearly visualize.
With 3D Tools
Provide realistic deliverables that paint a vivid recreation of the scene – so accurate and detailed that users report it has significantly decreased the likelihood their cases will even go to trial.
UK investigator describes how switching to a 3D laser scanner provides more valuable crash documentation.
The Kearney police force creates more detailed crash scene documentation in less time with 3D scanning solutions.
3D technology has helped this country, with one of the world’s highest crash fatalities rates, cut its on-scene documentation process time in half and identify more victims.
Short budget? Here are alternative ways any agency can afford this powerful technology.
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“It would take up to six investigators four to six hours to manually document 200 points, and the only thing we would have to show the prosecutor was a two-dimensional crash diagram. Now I’m capturing absolutely everything the laser scanner can see, and we’re capturing thousands of data points per second—indoors or outdoors.”
Kearney Police Department, Nebraska