With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for research and development to enhance crime laboratories’ ability to identify, characterize, capture, visualize, and preserve impression evidence. This solicitation focuses on: •Faster, reliable, widely applicable, less costly, and less labor-intensive tools and technologies for the identification, collection, preservation, and analysis of impression evidence. •Tools that provide a quantitative measure or statistical evaluation of forensic comparisons. •The effect of time and environmental factors on impression evidence. •The unique forensic characteristics found in impression evidence.
Awards
Number of Awards: 2
Total Amount Awarded: $645,419
Analysis of Footwear Impression Evidence
The use of Infrared imaging, a robust matching engine and associated algorithyms to enhance identification of both 2D and 3D impressions. Phase 1
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