Advances in Forensic Geophysics: Magnetic Susceptibility as a Tool for Environmental Forensic Geophysics

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Author(s): Elhoucine Essefi (University of Gabes, Tunisia)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 22
Source title: Technologies to Advance Automation in Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Chung-Hao Chen (Old Dominion University, USA), Wen-Chao Yang (National Central Police University, Taiwan)and Lijia Chen (Henan University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8386-9.ch002

Keywords: Criminal Science and Forensics / Digital Crime & Forensics / Information Science Reference / Security & Forensics

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Traditionally, forensic geophysics involves the study, search, localization, and mapping of buried objects or elements within soil, buildings, or water using geophysics tools for legal purposes. Recently, with the evolution of environmental crimes, forensic geophysics gave special care to detection, location, and quantification of polluting products. New techniques including the magnetic susceptibility have emerged to investigate this type of crimes. After discussing the state of the art of forensic geophysics, this chapter proposed the magnetic susceptibility as an efficient tool of environmental crimes detection. A case study of pollution detection was proposed from Tunisia. Being a fast and cheap technique, magnetic surveys represent a real promise for environmental forensic geophysics.

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