Integration of the Image Based Web Server and Crime Scene Mapping on Transportation Routes.

Sang H. Yoo, Graduate Geobiophysical Modeling Program, Marshall University, yoo1@marshall.edu

Juan D. Barrios, Nick J. Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute, Huntington, WV, barrios@marshall.edu

Sean Litteral, Nick J. Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute, Huntington, WV, littera2@marshall.edu

Graham Rankin, Forensic Science Program, Marshall University, rankinj@marshall.edu

James Brumfield, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences and Geobiophysical Modeling, Marshall University, brumfiel@marshall.edu

Image Map Web Server (IMWS) could provide invaluable information for community awareness. We are demonstrating the use of satellite imagery (Landsat7 ETM+) and aerial imagery (DOQQ’s) accessed via the Internet and querying IMWS information in support for crime scene investigations on various transportation routes.
The method included overlays of several sources of information: transportation routes, forested areas, bus routes, and schools. It could locate relatives and friend’s of victims, suggest places of potential high crime scene areas, escape routes, and assist in conducting crime scene geo-profiling and mapping.
Examples demonstrated include the crime scene scenario involving terrain and transportation systems in the cases of murders, abduction, or sex offender locations. These scenarios are conceptualized through geobiophysical modeling parameters through the crime scene and transportation mapping. The crime scene models are integrated through ArcGIS linkage with ERMapper and ECW (Enhance Compressed Wavelet) conversion into the IMWS for Internet browser access by forensic science and law enforcement personnel. The benefits of this easily accessed satellite imagery and DOQQ’s to public is its availability through computers for crime scene analysis by investigators.