Forensic Mapping

Our staff has been trained and certified in Forensic Mapping and we’ve long utilized the Nikon Nivo 3M Total Station to exactingly measure your accident scene with laser precision.  Now, we’re incorporating the newest addition to our arsenal of metrology tools, a state of the art FARO Focus 3D laser scanner;  along with a variety of software packages including FARO 3D Zone 2018.  We also utilize Photogrammetry and Structure From Motion Techniques, as well as 3D scanning to forensically map your accident scene, building, involved vehicle or product.   We’ve designed and built our own specialty multi-camera rigs for capturing 3D structure from motion imagery for outdoor and vehicular photography, as well as our own mobile depth camera rig for stereo camera scanning of larger accident sites, and we’ll use the FARO Focus to document the areas that are of the greatest concern in three dimensions, with milimeter precision.  We’ll create 3D models of the scene and the involved vehicles and are able to accurately and quickly determine the primary directions of force and how the vehicles collided. 

We’re able to quickly and economically produce point clouds and meshes for use with our animations and simulations.





We can map both indoor and outdoor accident scenes
and can 3D print models of your scene, involved vehicle, or failed product, etc., in addition to producing renderings of both 2D and 3D conceptual drawings, simulations and animations. 

We can take still photos, and our detailed 3D forensic mapping techniques to model your accident scene in either 2D or 3D in order to prepare conceptual animations and simulations.   Our precise measurements are used as the basis for conceptual models and are combined with Crash Data Retrieval Data to prepare exacting Conceptual Animations and Simulations. We can combine still photos, 3D models, point clouds and other types of media to graphically illustrate what happened in your loss.

We rely upon SLAM Technology and Google’s Project Tango, in addition to laser measurements, for indoor scene mapping.  For outdoor scenes, we utilize Sony’s Bumblebee2 Stereo Camera, as well as photogrammetry techniques to capture and depict accident scenes using 3D point clouds.


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In addition to 3D renderings, animations and simulations, we can also create 3D print models of injured body parts (from the treating physician’s CT scan imagery) and other 3 dimensional objects for use as trial exhibits.