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Enhanced Metadata Analysis Tool (EMAT)

Award Information

Award #
2009-FD-CX-K001
Funding Category
Competitive
Location
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2009
Total funding (to date)
$261,932

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2009, $261,932)

This project will develop an Enhanced Metadata Analysis Tool (EMAT), a novel application to assist digital forensic examiners by automating the processing and analysis of metadata recovered from digital data streams. The goal of this tool is to provide the forensic examiner with the ability to extract a wide variety of metadata from recovered files, summarize file relationships based upon their metadata, and search extracted metadata for specific terms.

ca/ncf

Date Created: September 23, 2009