InSight Crime: Intelligence Source Guide
InSight Crime is a non-profit newsroom and think tank covering organised crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, built on...
Event / Incident
Global Terrorism Database: Intelligence Source Guide
The GTD is the longest-running open event dataset on terrorist attacks, coded incident by incident from public reporting since 1970....
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 -...
OPCW Chemical Weapons: Intelligence Source Guide
The OPCW implements the Chemical Weapons Convention: declarations, industry inspections, stockpile destruction verification, and the investigative machinery that has attributed...
IAEA Incident & Trafficking DB: Intelligence Source Guide
The IAEA Incident and Trafficking Database is the authoritative record of nuclear and radioactive material out of regulatory control -...
CTBTO Monitoring: Intelligence Source Guide
The CTBTO operates a global, purpose-built network for detecting nuclear explosions using seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide sensors. Its bulletins...
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...
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...
Event / Incident: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
Keyword / Narrative: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A keyword is a hypothesis about language. Track the wrong string and you will measure nothing at all, very confidently....
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...
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;...
Space Intelligence (SPACEINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Orbits are deterministic and observable. A satellite cannot hide its manoeuvres from anyone willing to do the arithmetic, and much...
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Signals intelligence is a state function with a warrant behind it. For everyone else, the discipline still matters, because you...
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...
Measurement & Signature Intel (MASINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Imagery shows you the object. Measurement and signature intelligence tells you what the object is doing, how hot it is...
Technical Intelligence (TECHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every device carries a confession: certification filings, component markings, firmware strings and design choices. Technical intelligence reads that confession to...
Legal Intelligence (LEGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Litigation is an involuntary disclosure engine. Adversaries in court say, under oath and on the public record, what they will...
Criminal Intelligence (CRIMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Criminal intelligence is not case notes with better formatting. It is the discipline that turns scattered incidents into an articulable...
Energy Intelligence (ENERGYINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Energy is where physics, contracts and politics meet, and all three leave records. Energy intelligence reads the flows and the...
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...
Disinformation Intelligence (DISINFOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The finding is rarely that a claim is false. It is that a set of accounts, sites and outlets behaved...
Telephony Intelligence (TELINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A phone number is a routing address issued under a published plan, not a person. Telephony intelligence extracts everything the...
