Forensics Final 14
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copy deck
- iodine fuming
- used to discover fingerprints
- latent fingerprints
- not visible to the naked eye
- livescan
- automated fingerprint identification system
- florescence
- using dust that will glow in ultra violet light
- plastic print
- forms physical ridges in a 3-dimensional print (mud, clay, etc..)
- ridge characteristics (minutiae)
- number of ridges to the ridge island
- super glue fuming
- good for nonporous surfaces like metals, plastics, etc..
- digital imaging
- many different angles (perspective, 1:1, etc..)
- Automated fingerprint analysis identification system (AFIS)
- uses automatic scanning devices that convert the image of a fingerprint into digital minutiae that contain data showing ridges at their points of termination (ridge endings) and the branching of ridges into two ridges (bifurcations)