IUCN Red List: Intelligence Source Guide
The IUCN Red List is the global authority on species extinction risk: standardised categories and criteria, range maps, threat codings...
Environmental Crime
Global Witness: Intelligence Source Guide
Global Witness publishes long-form investigations into the money and ownership behind resource extraction and corruption, plus the sector standard annual...
Global Forest Watch: Intelligence Source Guide
Global Forest Watch publishes satellite-derived tree cover loss and near-real-time deforestation alerts alongside concession, protected area and tenure layers. It...
MarineTraffic / Global Fishing Watch: Intelligence Source Guide
Two very different ways to see a vessel: MarineTraffic, a commercial AIS aggregator selling position and voyage data, and Global...
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...
Facility / Site: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A facility is where corporate paper meets physical reality. Registries tell you who claims the site; the ground truth tells...
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...
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...
Meteorological Intelligence (METOCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Weather is the one adversary that files its own forecast. Meteorological intelligence turns that forecast into decisions about people, assets...
Environmental Intelligence (ENVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Physical conditions decide whether a site stays operational, whether a supplier ships, and whether a claim about the ground is...
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....
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...
Environmental Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Illegal gold rarely travels as gold. It travels as scrap, as jewellery, as a refinery invoice in a third country....
Mining & Resource Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Gold laundering does not require a refinery that knows it is complicit. It requires one refinery that accepts a dore...
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...
