ARPAST utilizes a variety of specialized software applications throughout the course of our research. Below are just a few examples of what we have determined to be the "best in class" applications. A basic description of what each product is designed to do is given in parenthesis.
A significant number of these applications are either open-source or freeware. The "($)" denotes that the product must be purchased; however, a trial version may be available for evaluation.
For information on some of the tools which ARPAST utilizes in our research, you can click here for our equipment inventory.
Information on our research database codenamed "SOCIUS" can be found here.
The 
denotes applications which ARPAST highly recommends.
- ADOBE AUDITION (audio editor) ($) - (Visit Site)
- DART PRO 24 (forensic audio editor/optimizer) ($) - (Visit Site)
- SOUNDCLEANER (audio enhancement) ($) - (Visit Site)
- NCH TONE GENERATOR (audio signal generator) ($) - (Visit Site)
- AUDACITY (audio editor) - (Visit Site)
- WAVEPAD (audio editor) - (Visit Site)
- COWON JETAUDIO BASIC (audio editor) - (Visit Site)
- PRAAT (audio phonetic analysis) - (Visit Site)
- iZotope RX (audio restoration) ($) - (Visit Site)
- REAPER (audio editor) (Visit Site)
VIDEO
- ADOBE PREMIER (video editor) ($) - (Visit Site)
- DIGITAL MEDIA CONVERTER ($) - (Visit Site)
- SIGVIEW FFT SIGNAL ANALYZER (real-time spectral analysis) ($) - (Visit Site)
- WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER (video editor) - (Visit Site)
- VIRTUAL DUB (video capture/processing) - (Visit Site)
- SCREENCODER (streaming/archiving video captures) - (Visit Site)
- IMAGE MINE PLATINUM (image library catalog) ($) - (Visit Site)
PHOTOGRAPHIC
- ADOBE PHOTOSHOP (image editor) ($) - (Visit Site)
- PICASA (image organizer) - (Visit Site)
- PAINT.NET (image editor) - (Visit Site)
- EXIF VIEWER - (Visit Site)
- EXIFER (extended EXIF manipulation) - (Visit Site)
- EXPOSUREPLOT (statistical graphs of exposure info, contained in EXIF data) - (Visit Site)
- IMAGENOMIC NOISEWARE (image noise reduction) - (Visit Site)
- XNVIEW (image view and conversion) - (Visit Site)
- PHOTOZOOM PRO 2 - (Visit Site)
- GIMP (image editor) - (Visit Site)
- ONLINE EXIF VIEWER - (Visit Site)
- UMARK LITE (add watermark to photo) - (Visit Site)
- FASTSTONE IMAGE VIEWER - (Visit Site)
- IRFANVIEW (image viewer) - (Visit Site)
- DIGITAL CAMERA ENHANCER (image enhancement) - (Visit Site)
- ZA DIGITAL IMAGE RECOVERY (recover deleted images) - (Visit Site)
MISC
- THERMACAM RESEARCHER ($) - (Visit Site)
- LUNARPHASE PRO - (Visit Site)
- DIGITAL ATMOSPHERE PROFESSIONAL ($) - (Visit Site)
- ARCGIS DESKTOP (geographical information) ($) - (Visit Site)
- EVPMAKER - (Visit Site)
