Udgård III – Portlethen Raw Dataset

Following the meeting of the Fire and Explosion Investigation Working Group (FEIWG) of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, 2018, the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) started a collaboration with the Nationalt Kriminalteknisk Center (NKC) during their visit to the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS), University of Dundee, United Kingdom. The Scottish Fire & Rescue Service (SFRS), SPA and NKC met and exchanged working practices in their respective jurisdictions. The meeting culminated in an invite for SFRS and SPA to attend the fire investigation training facility at Revinge, Sweden, as part of a training course run by NKC. This visit resulted in a proposal for collaboration amongst the LRCFS, SPA and SFRS, with close working ties with NKC, to create the first training facility of this kind in Scotland envisaging the use of converted storage containers.
Two portable cabins were purchased, converted into rooms, and sited within the SFRS training facility at Portlethen, Scotland, United Kingdom. A dedicated working group ensured the facility set-up and ran to ensure maximum return for invested resources from all agencies involved.
The shipping containers, in line with subsequent Udgard (Sept-2021) and Udgard II (April-2023) projects carried out by the collaboration between the LRCFS and NKC, have been named ‘Brigid’ and ‘Kelpie’.The LRCFS developed a standard operating procedure (SOP) for scene capture known as the ‘Dundee GT Protocol’, which was employed to carry out the photogrammetric acquisition of the scenes. The Udgård project enabled the digital registration of the site with a range of devices and scanning techniques, to be used to capture the same scenes across two phases: Beta (pre-fire crime scene) and Gamma (post-fire crime scene). The collection of the data presented in this dataset was performed in Portlethen, Scotland, United Kingdom on July 5th, 2023 (week 27). The collaboration between the LRCFS, SPA and NKC has successfully generated 3D reconstructions to be visualised in Virtual Reality (VR), to be used as both investigative and
training tools. The LRCFS, SPA and NKC have agreed to share these co-created training and research materials produced during the crime scene exercises and live burns across all the participant organisations. The produced data will be used For education and training (including revenue-generating courses for both organisations) and the generation of outputs that may have exploitable commercialisation potential. All Udgård partners can access a downloadable database with the results from Udgård, such as lidar scanners, Matterport, still photographs, videos, and measurements of the sensors deployed at the scene.

Keywords: forensic science, virtual reality, crime scene investigation, fire, photogrammetry, point cloud, 3d registration.

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