Integration of Soil Fingerprinting Techniques for Forensic Applications (Soilfit)

法医应用土壤指纹识别技术的集成 (Soilfit)

• 批准号: EP/C528786/1
• 负责人: Lorna Dawson
• 金额: $ 40.05万
• 依托单位: James Hutton Institute
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FC528786%2F1
• 关键词: Integration; Soil; Fingerprinting; Techniques; Forensic

This proposal aims to bring together the use of a combination of conventional, improved and new soil analytical techniques for forensic use on UK The main objective is to increase the range of situations where the normal constituents of soil can be analysed for criminal investigations. This will I achieved through the combined use of improved fingerprinting methods, effective use of available databases and through ensuring that a robust statistical approach is adopted throughout the whole project. Updated conventional soil analysis methods currently used in forensics (e.g. colour, texture, microscopic observations and mineralogy) will be integrated with with state-of-the-art techniques employed in soil science research (e.g. organic analysis, high resolution powder X-ray diffraction and molecular methods). Techniques that are applicable to trace samples (QemSCAN, palynology and molecular approaches) will be correlated to soil attributes measurable on larger sized samples and to those variables held in databt in Scotland, England and Wales and Northern Ireland. The ability to match samples with a defined probability will be greatly improved. Comparison data from a forensic sample with soil and associated data held in several databases will provide important intelligence clues, such as narrowing the geographical location of sample origin and associated vegetation.The main outcomes of the project will be, in collaboration with the National Crime and Operations Faculty (NCOF) and other relevant end users, to provide routes for the development of robust corroborative soil intelligence tools and enhance the provision of reliable evidence. In addition, a meth selector will be designed to assist investigators choose the best methods or indeed help decide which soil characteristic to use, dependant upon sa size, condition and pretreatment.

该提案的目的是将传统的、改进的和新的土壤分析技术结合在一起，用于英国的法医用途，主要目标是增加土壤正常成分可以用于刑事调查分析的情况范围。这将通过结合使用改进的指纹识别方法、有效利用现有数据库以及确保在整个项目中采用可靠的统计方法来实现。目前用于法医学的最新传统土壤分析方法（如颜色、质地、显微观察和矿物学）将与土壤科学研究中采用的最先进技术（如有机分析、高分辨率粉末x射线衍射和分子方法）相结合。适用于痕量样品的技术（QemSCAN、孢粉学和分子方法）将与在较大样本上可测量的土壤属性以及在苏格兰、英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的数据库中保存的变量相关联。用定义的概率匹配样本的能力将大大提高。将法医样本与土壤和保存在几个数据库中的相关数据进行比较，将提供重要的情报线索，例如缩小样本来源和相关植被的地理位置。该项目的主要成果将是与国家犯罪和行动学院（NCOF）和其他相关最终用户合作，为开发强有力的确证土壤情报工具提供途径，并加强可靠证据的提供。此外，将设计一个冰毒选择器，以帮助调查人员选择最佳方法或确实帮助决定使用哪种土壤特性，取决于粒径，条件和预处理。

项目成果

Methods of characterising and fingerprinting soils for forensic application

用于法医应用的土壤表征和指纹识别方法

• 发表时间: 2008
• 作者: LA Dawson

Forensic Geology in Environmental Crime: Illegal Waste Movement & Burial in Northern Ireland

环境犯罪中的法医地质学：非法废物运输

• DOI: 10.1080/15275920903140346
• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: Environmental Forensics
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Ruffell A

Exploring a Bayesian approach to assess transfer and persistence influences on the value of soil evidence

探索贝叶斯方法来评估转移和持久性对土壤证据价值的影响

• 发表时间: 2008
• 作者: L Macdonald

Discrimination of domestic garden soils using plant wax compounds as markers

使用植物蜡化合物作为标记物区分家庭花园土壤

• 发表时间: 2008
• 作者: R Mayes