System for 3D Mapping the Fire Scene

Abstract

The eSURV system is for measurements, documentation and 3D visualization and to interpret a fi re scene and determine how a fi re started and how it spread. The main objective of the system is to show the way in which scientifi c principles can be used by the fi re investigator. The solution is based on an electronic total station. Its work is being controlled by special software, designed to help the experts in documenting, analysing and reconstructing the accidents. The system includes innovative solutions that have been submitted for patent protection. The solutions improve the safety, the speed and the effi ciency of the work. The quality of the fi nal effect is impossible to achieve using traditional methods. eSURV allows the user to collect in a digital form the data on the geometry of the environment including traces and objects revealed on the site of the incident, then develop a plan and sketches, as well as a realistic 3D model of the scene of the post fi re places that can be used in the visualization, reconstruction and compartment fi re dynamics, which provide the basis for understanding fi re behaviour. Working with the eSURV system has already proved successful in such fi elds, as criminal incidents and road accidents.