Biometric Technology Application Manual - ITI Observatorio ...

Biometric Technology Application Manual Volume 1 xi
fied technician training. Data Services provides reference
materials in hard and web-based versions and maintains
special databases for support of biometric and identity
management activities.
NBSP’s permanent staff is efficiently supplemented, as required,
by external organizations contracted to perform
substantive research and technical work, highly specialized
and experienced consultants, and research organizations
focused on biometric or identity matters, such as
the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)
at West Virginia University and other academic institutions
associated with CITeR.
Purpose and Objectives
•
•
•
•
•
Learning and comparing how various biometric technologies
perform and have performed in real-world
applications (both successfully and unsuccessfully),
and why.
Providing a means to evaluate various biometric solutions
based on specific application parameters and
requirements.
Determining where, when, and why a biometricbased
solution is a good fit, or when, where, and why
it is not.
Supporting technology evaluation by defining the
questions to ask, identifying other considerations
and understanding the issues generated by the need
for interoperability.
Helping to answer such questions as: How do I evalu-
Version 2 – Summer 2008