Title Ballistic imaging / Committee to Assess the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database ; Daniel L. Cork [and others], editors.

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Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (xxi, 322 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index.
Contents	pt. 1. Context for ballistic imaging analysis -- Introduction -- Firearms and ammunition : physics, manufacturing, and sources of variability -- Firearms identification and the use of ballistic evidence -- pt. 2. Current ballistic imaging and databases -- Current ballistic imaging technology -- Current ballistic image databases : NIBIN and the state reference databases -- Operational and technical enhancements to NIBIN -- Three-dimensional measurement and ballistic imaging -- pt. 3. Implications for a national reference ballistic image database -- Experimental evidence on sources of variability and imaging standards -- Feasibility of a national reference ballistic image database -- pt. 4. Future directions -- Microstamping : alternative technology for tracing to point of sale -- Best standards for future developments in computer-assisted firearms identification.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Forensic ballistics -- Atlases -- Data processing -- Government policy -- United States.
	Forensic ballistics.
Genre/Form	Atlases.
Subject	Government policy.
	United States.
	Bullets -- Identification -- Databases.
	Bullets -- Identification.
Genre/Form	Databases.
Subject	Images, Photographic -- Databases.
	Images, Photographic.
	Electronic records -- United States -- Management -- Data processing.
	Electronic records.
	Management.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Atlases.
	Databases.
Added Author	Cork, Daniel L.
Other Form:	Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Assess the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database. Ballistic imaging. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2008 9780309117241 (DLC) 2008015181 (OCoLC)220859302
ISBN	0309117259 (pdf ; alkaline paper)
	9780309117258 (pdf ; alkaline paper)
	0309117240 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780309117241 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Title Ballistic imaging / Committee to Assess the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database ; Daniel L. Cork [and others], editors.

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