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Preserving possible crime scenes with photomapping: when rising waters threaten to obliterate evidence of a potential homicide, investigators turn to GPS-linked photography and GIS to record and analyze the details.(Crime Analysis and GIS)
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Geospatial Solutions
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September 1, 2006
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- Corbley, Kevin P.
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Soon Kim, a Korean national working at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, disappeared while boating on Lake Powell with his roommate in 1985. The subsequent investigation into his disappearance turned up more questions than answers--about both his life and death--and required geospatial tools, as well as police work, to resolve.
"The roommate told authorities that Soon Kim had been thrown out of their boat when it bounced over the wake of another boat," said Brian O'Dea, special agent for the National Park Service (NPS) in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (NRA). "But the body wasn't found."
Drownings are not uncommon in Lake Powell, which averages more than one ...