ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the usefulness of photogrammetry as a crime/crash mapping and recording tool, coupled with its ability to partner with drones to collect more comprehensive data. Contrasted to its earlier years as a standalone crime and crash scene mapping technology, photogrammetry is now often integrated with other mapping tools, such as 3D laser scanners, and particularly Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones. The supplemental data captured by these other mapping tools makes photogrammetry a more powerful way to view scenes in 3D detail. Although photogrammetry is a precursor to 3D laser scanning, it tackles many of the same crime scene reconstruction applications that have been credited to scanning, at a fraction of the overall system cost. In such instances, photogrammetry can be an invaluable documentation tool. Although Jones has tapped other scene reconstruction technologies in the past few years, he still finds photogrammetry helpful for select crash scenes.
