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Forensic Geophysics Instrumentation and Data Acquisition

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Nowadays, in the forensic science geophysical methods should detect, characterise, and discriminate hidden structures to obtain useful information and provide accurate and efficient results for the investigative purpose. In this field in comparison with other direct procedures (such as direct excavations, drill cores, etc.), geophysical methods minimise time and cost factors and maximise the amount of data, information, and knowledge that can be obtained. This chapter introduces a new “not standard” procedures to acquire the geophysical data, new mode to process, and interpret them. A framework for identify the basic problem and successively chose the appropriate solution with data processing and the relationship between the data, the information, and the apriori knowledge is presented. In the book and particularly in this chapter attempts to respond to the question of how data, information, and knowledge can be enhanced for crime site characterisation. The latter item discussed in this chapter is related to the advanced visualisation techniques and how they can help and address classical crime and civil problems.

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Leucci, G. (2020). Forensic Geophysics Instrumentation and Data Acquisition. In: Advances in Geophysical Methods Applied to Forensic Investigations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46242-0_3

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