IBIS
Definition
Integrated Ballistics Identification System: an image-based database platform used by multiple countries to store and compare fired cartridge cases and bullets from crime scenes. Algorithmic comparison generates candidate matches for human review.
Related terms
- Cartridge case markings
- Impressions left on a fired cartridge case by the breech face, firing pin, extractor, and ejector of the firearm. Like rifling marks...
- Comparison microscope
- Two compound microscope bodies connected by an optical bridge that presents one half of each body's image in a single split eyepiece...
- Rifling
- The helical groove pattern cut into a firearm barrel that imparts spin to the bullet, stabilising it in flight. Rifling lands and...
- Striation marks
- Fine parallel scratches on a fired bullet's surface produced by microscopic irregularities in the barrel's rifling. The pattern is individual to that...
- Wound track
- The path of tissue disruption left by a projectile passing through a body. Consists of a permanent cavity (crushed tissue) and a...
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