IBIN

Related terms

BrassTRAX-3D HD

The cartridge-case acquisition and database search module of the IBIS system. Captures firing-pin impression, breech-face, and ejector mark topography for correlation against...

BulletTRAX-3D HD

The bullet-surface acquisition and database search module of the IBIS system. Captures land impression topography from fired bullets for correlation against database...

Correlation Report

The output of an automated NIBIN or IBIS database search above the review threshold. An investigative lead document, not a court exhibit....

EBIS

European Ballistic Information Service. Distributed ENFSI network of national IBIS nodes allowing cross-border cartridge case and bullet correlation searches between European forensic...

Evofinder

A competing ballistic identification system by Evofinder Ltd. (UK) using a different optical acquisition method and algorithm to IBIS. Deployed in jurisdictions...

IBIS TRAX-3D HD

Forensic Technology's Integrated Ballistic Identification System, third-generation hardware with high-definition optical scanning. Produces topographic maps of bullet and cartridge case surfaces for...

NABIS

National Ballistics Intelligence Service; the UK police intelligence service that maintains a national headstamp and firearm reference collection and coordinates ballistic intelligence...

NIBIN

National Integrated Ballistic Information Network. ATF-operated distributed network of IBIS acquisition sites and correlation servers across the United States, active since 1999...

NIBIN Hit

A correlation result above the review threshold in the NIBIN database. A hit generates a Correlation Report (investigative lead); a subsequent human-examiner...

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• Automated Ballistic Databases: IBIS, NIBIN, EBIS and INTERPOL IBININTERPOL Ballistic Information Network. The global-tier ballistic comparison system at INTERPOL Lyon, accepting submissions from over 60 countries for transnat...