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...
Maritime Security
Sunrise-Sunset API: Intelligence Source Guide
A free, keyless API returning sunrise, sunset, solar noon and the three twilight boundaries for any coordinate and date. Small,...
NOAA Aviation Weather Center API: Intelligence Source Guide
The Aviation Weather Center serves observations, forecasts, pilot reports, hazard advisories and upper-air winds through a keyless government API. It...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Maritime Intelligence (MARINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Ships are legally required to announce themselves. The interesting behaviour is what happens in the minutes after a vessel stops...
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...
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...
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...
Sanctions Intelligence (SANCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A sanctions hit is not a finding. It is the start of one, and the work is proving whether the...
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...
RF & Signals Intel: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Aircraft over a whole region started reporting navigation integrity failures within the same hour. No one announced anything. The spectrum...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Supply Chain Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
You do not have one supply chain. You have a graph nobody has ever drawn. The compromise usually enters at...
Sanctions Evasion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Sanctions evasion leaves a documentary shadow: a new intermediary in a familiar corridor, a vessel that stops transmitting for eleven...
Kidnap, Hostage & Extortion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A kidnap-for-ransom market has a price list, a broker layer and a settlement rail. Treat it as an economy rather...
