Department of Engineering, University of Naples Parthenope, Centro Direzionale di Napoli Isola C4, 80143, Naples, Italy,
Environ Monit Assess. 2014 Dec;186(12):8291-301. doi: 10.1007/s10661-014-4003-3. Epub 2014 Aug 26.
Being able to identify the environmental crimes and the guilty parties is central to police investigations, and new technologies enable the authorities to do this faster and more accurately than ever before. In recent years, our research team has introduced the use of a range of aerial platforms and an innovative application of thermography to detect several illegal activities; for example, illegal sanitary sewer and storm-drain connections, illicit wastewater discharges, and other "anomalies" on surface waters can be easily identified using their thermal infrared signatures. It can also be used to detect illegal solid/liquid waste dumps or illicit air discharges. This paper introduces first results of a Thermal Pattern and Thermal Tracking approach that can be used to identify different phenomena and several pollutants. The aims of this paper were to introduce a fingerprint paradigm for environmental police investigations, defining several specific signatures (patterns) that permit the identification of an illicit/anomalous activity, and establish a procedure to use this information to find the correlation (tracking) between the crime and the culprit or the source and the target.
能够识别环境犯罪和犯罪方是警方调查的核心，新技术使当局能够比以往任何时候都更快、更准确地做到这一点。近年来，我们的研究团队引入了一系列空中平台和热成像的创新应用，以检测多种非法活动；例如，使用其热红外特征，可以轻松识别非法卫生下水道和雨水渠连接、非法废水排放以及地表水的其他“异常”现象。它还可用于检测非法固/液废物倾倒场或非法空气排放。本文介绍了一种可用于识别不同现象和多种污染物的热模式和热跟踪方法的初步结果。本文的目的是引入一种用于环境警察调查的指纹范例，定义允许识别非法/异常活动的几个特定特征（模式），并建立一种使用此信息找到犯罪与罪犯或来源与目标之间相关性（跟踪）的程序。
