Toward a documentary standard for performance testing of terrestrial laser scanners used in forensic practice: A statistical procedure to assess change in instrument precision

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This paper documents efforts by members of the Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction subcommittee within the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science, in collaboration with researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to develop a documentary standard for performance assessment testing of terrestrial laser scanners. Intended to be performed by forensic practitioners, this "Interim Performance Assessment" is specifically designed to be inexpensive, concise, and flexible, and comprises of two parts that separately evaluate instrument accuracy and precision. This paper motivates and details the second of these test procedures, which uses a statistical methodology to assess whether an instrument's point coordinate precision has significantly changed over time.

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Forensic Science and Documentary standards

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