Identification of victims following a mass fatality is conducted by collecting and analysing a series of scientific identifiers and contextual information of each decedent.Recently,there has been a paradigm shift dema...Identification of victims following a mass fatality is conducted by collecting and analysing a series of scientific identifiers and contextual information of each decedent.Recently,there has been a paradigm shift demanding that this complex identification process be accelerated to meet the needs of the surviving families,politicians and even the media.Postmortem fingerprint identification is a fast and efficient means of victim identification,and through the use of new advances in technology,the digital capture of fingerprints in a disaster victim identification(DVI)setting will play a strong role.This paper provides an overview of current technology and explains how this technology can adapt to current DVI procedures.The Malaysian Airlines Flight 17(MH17)incident is a recent example of a DVI event that utilized new digital fingerprint capture technology and further demonstrates why such technology is warranted in future mass fatality operations.展开更多
文摘Identification of victims following a mass fatality is conducted by collecting and analysing a series of scientific identifiers and contextual information of each decedent.Recently,there has been a paradigm shift demanding that this complex identification process be accelerated to meet the needs of the surviving families,politicians and even the media.Postmortem fingerprint identification is a fast and efficient means of victim identification,and through the use of new advances in technology,the digital capture of fingerprints in a disaster victim identification(DVI)setting will play a strong role.This paper provides an overview of current technology and explains how this technology can adapt to current DVI procedures.The Malaysian Airlines Flight 17(MH17)incident is a recent example of a DVI event that utilized new digital fingerprint capture technology and further demonstrates why such technology is warranted in future mass fatality operations.
