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...
Geospatial Intelligence
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...
Location / Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A place name is not a point. It is a claim about where something happened, carrying a resolution, a source...
Sanction / Watchlist Entry: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A sanctions hit is not an answer. It is a name, a legal basis and a programme code telling you...
Cryptocurrency Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A blockchain address is a pseudonymous account with a permanent, public and complete transaction history. That combination makes it the...
Company / Organization: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Companies are how money, liability and control get organised. Follow the entity and you find the people who preferred not...
CVE / Vulnerability: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A CVE identifier is a label for a flaw, not a measure of your risk. Treating the two as the...
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...
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
Phone Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A phone number is a globally routable identifier attached to a real contract and, increasingly, to every account a person...
Person / Name: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A name is the weakest identifier in intelligence work and the one most likely to end a career when handled...
ASN: Data Point Intelligence Guide
The ASN is where infrastructure stops being anonymous. Every packet on the public internet is routed by an organisation that...
IP Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An IP address tells you where traffic went, not who sent it. Treat it as a lead on infrastructure, never...
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...
Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Place is the one attribute nearly every other data point carries. Geospatial intelligence makes place answer questions: what is here,...
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...
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...
Space & Satellite Intel: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A satellite manoeuvred twice in one week and ended up station-keeping four kilometres from another operator's communications bird. Nothing was...
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...
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...
Energy Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two things tell you a country is in trouble before its ministers do: how fast its gas storage is emptying,...
