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 -...
Geospatial Intelligence
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...
Conflict Armament Research iTrace: Intelligence Source Guide
Conflict Armament Research sends investigators into conflict zones to physically document recovered weapons and ammunition, record their markings, and formally...
TRAFFIC Wildlife Trade: Intelligence Source Guide
TRAFFIC is the wildlife-trade monitoring NGO whose seizure records, market surveys and CITES-facing analysis form the open evidence base for...
IPIS Conflict Minerals: Intelligence Source Guide
IPIS maps artisanal mining sites in eastern DRC from field visits, recording minerals worked, workforce and which armed actors are...
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...
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...
Radio Callsign: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A callsign is a licensed identity broadcast in the clear. Few identifiers are simultaneously regulated, globally unique and publicly indexed....
Flight Number / Route: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A flight number is a marketing label. The aircraft underneath it is the thing that actually moved, and it keeps...
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....
Messaging Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A messaging handle outlives phone numbers, domains and marketplaces. It is the thread that ties an operation together across years...
Real Property / Parcel: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Property is the asset that cannot be moved offshore overnight. Deeds, charges and valuations leave a permanent, dated, jurisdictional trail....
Court Case / Docket: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Court records are the only open dataset where an adversary is compelled to describe their own conduct under oath. Analysts...
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...
License Plate: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A plate identifies a registration, not a person and not permanently a vehicle. It is the most privacy-loaded identifier most...
Aircraft: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An aircraft carries three identities at once: what is painted on the tail, what the transponder broadcasts, and who actually...
Vessel / Ship: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ship can change its name, its flag and its owner in a week. The IMO number assigned at build...
Shipping Container: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Eleven characters follow a steel box from a factory yard to a customs hold. The check digit tells you in...
Shipment / Bill of Lading: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A bill of lading names the shipper, the consignee and the goods on the same page. It is the closest...
HS Commodity Code: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six digits decide the tariff, the licence and the level of scrutiny. Getting them wrong is how controlled goods travel...
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...
