Photo Analysis Expert Witnesses

Dana Point, California

Animations, Land Surveying - scene mapping, scene visualization, sightlines, stopping sight distance, scene reconstruction, topographic mapping, passing sight distance, photogrammetry, visual demonstratives, as-built mapping, spatial data visualization, video analysis, animations, GPS data analysis, spatial data analysis, photo analysis

Steyn Visagie is a licensed land surveyor, forensic animator, and FAA-certified remote (drone) pilot. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Surveying from the University of Cape Town and is a licensed professional land surveyor in California and Virginia. With a decade of experience in the forensic industry, he has worked with litigators and experts in accident reconstruction, injury biomechanics, traffic engineering, and human factors. Steyn has inspected, surveyed, reconstructed, analyzed, and visually represented hundreds of scenes - ranging from car and train accident scenes to ski slopes, trampoline parks to prison cells, police shooting scenes to polo fields, and even an exploded gas line to a "haunted house of horrors". If visualizing and understanding the spatial characteristics of a scene is a key component of your case, I can help.

Sacramento, California

Video, Photography & Imaging - Visibility, Daytime Visibility, Nighttime Visibility, Visibility Study, Visibility Analysis, Human Factors, Video Analysis, Photography, Photo Analysis, Photogrammetry, Mapping, Visual, Drone, UAV, Aerial, GIS, Animation, Photomodeling, 3D, Lighting

Paul Jacobs provides animation and simulation services to aid in the understanding of complex events, as well as photography, video and technical services for controlled event reenactments, especially as related to daytime and nighttime visibility. Paul works in collaboration with counsel, accident reconstruction, human factor, and other specialized experts to fairly and accurately reconstruct incidents for fact finding, documentation and evidentiary purposes. Paul Jacobs specializes in the visualization of forensic principles and the production of effective demonstrative exhibits that assist counsel in presenting complex, factual information in an understandable way, and provides supporting testimony. Paul specializes in visibility analysis. A visibility analysis documents an event participant’s ability to visually detect a stimulus. Daytime, nighttime, and low light visibility studies use photographic, video and metric data capture of controlled tests to document scene elements i...