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,...
Imagery Intelligence
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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,...
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....
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...
Conflict & Humanitarian: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The first measurable sign of a coming famine is usually not hunger. It is a market price series breaking from...
Military & Defense: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Order of battle used to be a classified product. Now a unit's deployment is visible from insignia in a soldier's...
WMD / Proliferation: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Proliferation networks do not buy weapons. They buy vacuum pumps, maraging steel, frequency converters and flow-forming machines, each individually unremarkable...
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...
