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
Depending on the magnitude and nature of a disaster,identifying the victims can be a complex task that requires coordinated work by disaster victim identification(DVI)teams based on pre-established protocols.Thus,the ...Depending on the magnitude and nature of a disaster,identifying the victims can be a complex task that requires coordinated work by disaster victim identification(DVI)teams based on pre-established protocols.Thus,the analysis of fingerprints has been presented as a method to establish,when possible,the identity of the victims during the DVI process.This study discusses the importance of this primary method of identification and the results obtained in four different disasters in which Brazilian DVI teams were involved:the Air France Flight AF447 plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean,floods and mudslides in the State of Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,the LaMia Flight 2933 plane crash in Colombia,and the tailings dam collapse in Brumadinho,Brazil.Here,we also report the use of the automatic fingerprint capture and identification system,called Alethia,developed by the Federal Police of Brazil and used in the victim identification process in the two latter events mentioned above.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.
文摘Depending on the magnitude and nature of a disaster,identifying the victims can be a complex task that requires coordinated work by disaster victim identification(DVI)teams based on pre-established protocols.Thus,the analysis of fingerprints has been presented as a method to establish,when possible,the identity of the victims during the DVI process.This study discusses the importance of this primary method of identification and the results obtained in four different disasters in which Brazilian DVI teams were involved:the Air France Flight AF447 plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean,floods and mudslides in the State of Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,the LaMia Flight 2933 plane crash in Colombia,and the tailings dam collapse in Brumadinho,Brazil.Here,we also report the use of the automatic fingerprint capture and identification system,called Alethia,developed by the Federal Police of Brazil and used in the victim identification process in the two latter events mentioned above.
