N2YO satellite tracking: Intelligence Source Guide
N2YO turns the public satellite catalogue into answers: where an object is right now, when it next passes over a...
Satellite Imagery
CelesTrak / Space-Track: Intelligence Source Guide
CelesTrak and Space-Track are the two public front doors to the US-maintained satellite catalogue: mean orbital elements for tens of...
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...
CBRN Intelligence (CBRNINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risk is monitored by an unusually open international architecture. The intelligence value is in reading...
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...
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...
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 Intelligence (RISKINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Risk intelligence is what stops a briefing ending with it depends. It converts what you know, and what you do...
Economic Intelligence (ECONINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Economic intelligence is how you see a disruption forming while it is still a shipping rate, an export licence and...
Meteorological Intelligence (METOCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Weather is the one adversary that files its own forecast. Meteorological intelligence turns that forecast into decisions about people, assets...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
