Michael Harrington, Michael Cross

Google Earth Forensics (eBook, ePUB)

Using Google Earth Geo-Location in Digital Forensic Investigations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Google Earth Forensics is the first book to explain how to use Google Earth in digital forensic investigations. This book teaches you how to leverage Google's free tool to craft compelling location-based evidence for use in investigations and in the courtroom. It shows how to extract location-based data that can be used to display evidence in compelling audiovisual manners that explain and inform the data in contextual, meaningful, and easy-to-understand ways.

As mobile computing devices become more and more prevalent and powerful, they are becoming more and more useful in the field of law enforcement investigations and forensics. Of all the widely used mobile applications, none have more potential for helping solve crimes than those with geo-location tools.

Written for investigators and forensic practitioners, Google Earth Forensics is written by an investigator and trainer with more than 13 years of experience in law enforcement who will show you how to use this valuable tool anywhere at the crime scene, in the lab, or in the courtroom.

• Learn how to extract location-based evidence using the Google Earth program or app on computers and mobile devices
• Covers the basics of GPS systems, the usage of Google Earth, and helps sort through data imported from external evidence sources
• Includes tips on presenting evidence in compelling, easy-to-understand formats

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128005040
• Artikelnr.: 42007474

Autorenporträt

Michael Harrington is a former Law Enforcement officer with over ten years of experience in digital forensics. He lectures on Mobile Forensics around the world and has been involved in various forensic projects including Pandora's Box and WOLF. Michael has been published in the Thomas J Cooley Law Journal and on Forensic Focus. He also writes on the subject of mobile forensics at http://mobileforensics.wordpress.com

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: GPS Basics
Chapter 2: KML/XML 101
Chapter 3: Google Earth Basics
Chapter 4: Organizing a Case
Chapter 5: Annotating
Chapter 6: Feature Baloons
Chapter 7: Adding Images
Chapter 8: Polygons
Chapter 9: Measuring Distances
Chapter 10: Perspectives
Chapter 11: Legends and Logos
Chapter 12: Creating a Tour
Chapter 13: Distributing Cases
Chapter 14: Extras
Appendices