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...
Border Security & Migration
Biometric Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Biometrics are the only identifier a person cannot change after it leaks. That single property should govern every decision you...
National ID Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A national ID number is the closest thing that exists to a primary key for a human being. It is...
Vehicle Intelligence (VEHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A vehicle is a seventeen-character identifier attached to an engine. Decode it properly and you get the plant, the year,...
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...
Identity Intelligence (IDENT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Identity resolution fails in two directions and only one of them is visible. A missed link costs you the investigation;...
Imagery Intelligence (IMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An image is a measurement, not a picture. Imagery intelligence extracts what can be measured, then defends out loud 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...
Maritime Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The vessel reported itself in the Gulf of Oman. Radar put it alongside a sanctioned tanker four hundred miles away....
Climate Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Climate intelligence is not weather forecasting. It is the discipline of working out which rainfall deficit ends in a cabinet...
