Patent Document ID: 8854618
Application ID: 13170434
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of measuring an effluent plume of peri-mortem and post mortem molecules released from a fallen casualty, the measuring method comprising the steps of: providing an EO/IR camera input for determining heat signatures from a scene; determining a location of said fallen casualty based on said heat signatures; directing a hand-held laser Raman backscattering device towards the location of the fallen casualty to effect a distant laser backscattering from said fallen casualty; detecting a measurable presence or absence of one or more molecular peri-mortem features based on said distant laser backscattering from said fallen casualty; detecting a measurable presence or absence of one or more post-mortem features based on said distant laser backscattering from said fallen casualty; and processing the detected measurements of peri-mortem and/or post-mortem features based on a set of rules to derive an estimate of death of the fallen casualty.