From Washington, D.C., at a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Aerial surveys that scan the ground at many wavelengths, some visible and some not, may offer a way to quickly and easily detect clandestine mass grave sites.
During field tests in Costa Rica, Margaret Kalacska, a remote-sensing analyst at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and her colleagues buried several slaughtered cattle—a weight approximately equal to that of eight adult humans—in a hole 5 meters square and 1.5