Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains

Mr. Geoff Knupfer:

Yes, it possibly could. All these applications are complementary but, unfortunately, none of them will reveal exactly where the body is. Were that there was something. We looked at "Bloodlands" and thought what a wonderful piece of technology that drama series had come up with but, of course, that was make-believe. We use all these applications. In the past, LiDAR was very expensive because it had to be fitted to an aeroplane and the area surveyed by manned aircraft. Now, we can do it with unmanned vehicles and they are improving the approaches we can use. Unfortunately, LiDAR, just like infrared and the various other survey tools, will not give us the simple answer.

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