PLSS / BLM Cadastral (US): Intelligence Source Guide
The Bureau of Land Management publishes the Public Land Survey System grid, federal surface and mineral ownership layers, and the...
Border Security & Migration
INSPIRE / data.gov cadastral (US NationalMap): Intelligence Source Guide
The National Map is the USGS base-layer service for United States territory - elevation, hydrography, boundaries, structures, transportation and names...
IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM): Intelligence Source Guide
DTM is how IOM counts displaced people at administrative and site level in active crises, with a public API for...
UNHCR Population Statistics: Intelligence Source Guide
UNHCR's Refugee Statistics API serves the official global counts of refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced people, stateless persons and returnees, by...
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...
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...
Border Security & Migration: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A migration surge rarely begins at the border. It begins weeks earlier in a Telegram price list, a change in...
Transnational Repression: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A dissident's family is visited at home, an INTERPOL notice appears, and a spyware link arrives by messenger, all within...
Conflict & Humanitarian: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The first measurable sign of a coming famine is usually not hunger. It is a market price series breaking from...
Counter-Terrorism: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Attack planning leaves a logistics trail before it leaves an ideological one: a rented van, a chemical purchase, a reconnaissance...
Forced Labour & Modern Slavery: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Forced labour is rarely announced by chains and locked doors. It shows up as recruitment fees, retained passports, and a...
Art & Antiquities Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Looted antiquities rarely arrive with a forged export licence. They arrive with a vague provenance line, usually a private European...
Counterfeiting & IP Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A counterfeit is not a bad copy. It is a parallel supply chain with real factories, freight forwarders, payment processors...
Wildlife Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A container declared as plastic scrap weighing four tonnes more than plastic scrap should weigh is the whole case. The...
Weapons Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Most weapons in an illicit market were legal once. The investigative question is not where the gun came from but...
Human Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Very few trafficking victims arrive at a police station and describe themselves as trafficked. What arrives first is a wage...
Drug Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cluster of six overdoses in one town over a weekend is not a public health footnote. It is the...
