Sunrise-Sunset API: Intelligence Source Guide
A free, keyless API returning sunrise, sunset, solar noon and the three twilight boundaries for any coordinate and date. Small,...
Aviation Security
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC): Intelligence Source Guide
SWPC publishes the operational space weather picture as open JSON and text: solar wind at the L1 point, geomagnetic indices,...
NOAA Aviation Weather Center API: Intelligence Source Guide
The Aviation Weather Center serves observations, forecasts, pilot reports, hazard advisories and upper-air winds through a keyless government API. It...
AVWX REST API: Intelligence Source Guide
AVWX is a parsing and normalisation layer over official aviation weather: it turns raw METAR and TAF code into structured...
hexdb.io: Intelligence Source Guide
hexdb.io is the free Mode-S lookup service that most community ADS-B receiver installations call in the background: hex to registration,...
adsbdb: Intelligence Source Guide
adsbdb is a free, keyless API that turns a 24-bit ICAO hex address or a registration into aircraft type, operator...
OpenSky Network / ADS-B: Intelligence Source Guide
OpenSky Network is a non-profit, research-governed ADS-B and Mode S receiver network that publishes live aircraft state vectors and, for...
Airframes.io: Intelligence Source Guide
Airframes.io aggregates decoded aircraft datalink messages - ACARS, VDL Mode 2, HFDL and satellite AERO - from a volunteer receiver...
Radio Callsign: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A callsign is a licensed identity broadcast in the clear. Few identifiers are simultaneously regulated, globally unique and publicly indexed....
Flight Number / Route: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A flight number is a marketing label. The aircraft underneath it is the thing that actually moved, and it keeps...
Aircraft: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An aircraft carries three identities at once: what is painted on the tail, what the transponder broadcasts, and who actually...
Logistics Intelligence (LOGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Goods leave a paper trail long before they leave the warehouse. Customs declarations, manifests and trade statistics describe physical movement...
Aviation Intelligence (AVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An aircraft broadcasts its identity and position to anyone with a twenty-dollar receiver. The intelligence is not in the position;...
Radio Frequency Intelligence (RFINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The spectrum is a public utility with a public map. Licences, allocations and open receiver networks let you characterise the...
Sanctions Intelligence (SANCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A sanctions hit is not a finding. It is the start of one, and the work is proving whether the...
Aviation Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cargo operator with three aircraft filed forty-one flights in a month, all into the same two airports, all with...
RF & Signals Intel: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Aircraft over a whole region started reporting navigation integrity failures within the same hour. No one announced anything. The spectrum...
Space & Satellite Intel: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A satellite manoeuvred twice in one week and ended up station-keeping four kilometres from another operator's communications bird. Nothing was...
Military & Defense: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Order of battle used to be a classified product. Now a unit's deployment is visible from insignia in a soldier's...
