Friday, January 14, 2011

Forensics lab for critters

There's a forensics lab where some of the victims have more than two legs. It's the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory, the only lab in the world dedicated to crimes against wildlife. The lab divides its services into chemistry, criminalistics, genetics, morphology, pathology and digital evidence.

A video unit, listed under digital evidence, provides services that aim to make video evidence for their cases accessible for the court system. Analysis typically produces clarified photographic prints from video. According to their website they perform format conversion, repair of damaged videotapes, authenticity, stabilization, time-lapse conversion and comparison and more.

Full description of Video Unit services toward the bottom of Digital Evidence Unit page at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Forensics Laboratory.

Full video tour of the lab at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory.

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