ACLED Conflict Events: Intelligence Source Guide
ACLED codes individual political violence and protest events - date, place, actors, sub-event type and a conservative fatality figure -...
Conflict & Humanitarian
iTrace (CAR): Intelligence Source Guide
iTrace records weapons, ammunition and components that Conflict Armament Research investigators physically held in a conflict zone, then traces them...
Oryx OSINT Equipment Losses: Intelligence Source Guide
Oryx publishes cumulative lists of military equipment losses in which every single entry is backed by a photograph or video,...
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...
UCDP Georeferenced Events: Intelligence Source Guide
UCDP GED records individual incidents of organised violence worldwide from 1989 onward, each geocoded to a point, dated to a...
ReliefWeb (OCHA): Intelligence Source Guide
ReliefWeb is OCHA's curated archive of humanitarian reporting: situation reports, assessments, appeals, maps and analysis from thousands of organisations, indexed...
Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX): Intelligence Source Guide
HDX is the UN's open catalogue of humanitarian data: administrative boundaries, population figures, displacement counts, food prices, conflict events and...
Video: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A video is not evidence of what its caption claims. It is a container of measurable facts, and those facts...
Image / Photograph: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Every photograph makes two claims: this is what it shows, and this is where and when it was taken. Both...
Satellite Imagery: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Overhead imagery does not tell you what happened. It tells you what changed between two dates, and the analyst supplies...
GPS Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six decimal places is a doorstep. Two is a district. Precision in a coordinate is a decision about harm, not...
News Intelligence (NEWSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Reporting is evidence of what was published, by whom, when and sourced how. Treated that way it is one of...
Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Social platforms record behaviour, not truth: what was posted, when, by an account, to an audience. Social media intelligence keeps...
Medical Intelligence (MEDINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Medical intelligence is not about outbreaks. It is about whether the hospital your team would actually be taken to can...
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...
Risk Intelligence (RISKINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Risk intelligence is what stops a briefing ending with it depends. It converts what you know, and what you do...
Risk Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The evacuation decision was made three days after the intelligence supported it. Nobody lacked information. What was missing was a...
Disinformation / IO: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two hundred accounts posted the same seven-word phrase within ninety seconds. None of them had existed six weeks earlier. The...
Biosecurity & Pandemic: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The first signal is almost never a laboratory confirmation. It is a rural clinic ordering more oxygen than usual, a...
Maritime Piracy: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Piracy risk is not a map. It is a product of monsoon windows, mothership range, freeboard and speed, and how...
Food & Agricultural Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The famine is declared months after the data said it was coming. Vegetation anomaly, staple price, and the first export...
Water Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
You can watch a diplomatic crisis fill up. Reservoir altimetry showed the impoundment rate months before the downstream government said...
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...
