Audio Ballistics

Some of our most notable work involves the analysis of gunfire. Solely from the sound of gunshots, we can effectively deduce information about the shooter’s location, movements, the number of shooters, and the direction in which the bullets are travelling. We achieve this through various analytical methods, including measuring the time interval between the shot and its echo, determining the distance between the bullet’s sonic crack breaking the sound barrier and the boom of the muzzle blast, analysing the time differences when a shot is recorded at two or more positions, studying the decay rate of a shot, and conducting detailed comparative spectral analyses to examine the acoustic behaviour of a given shot across the frequency spectrum.

Case Study: Audio Ballistics for a Killing in Ras el Ain, Nablus