CDASA I: Topic 8 Questions And
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GEOINT - ANSWER✔✔ - The exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial
information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and
geographically referenced activities on the earth
- Provides the geographical context to precisely locate, analyze, and monitor
activities and provides a basis for developing shared awareness of the operational
environment
3 Components of GEOINT - ANSWER✔✔ - Imagery
- Imagery Intelligence: intelligence derived from imagery and sensors
- Geospatial Information: identifies geographic location, characteristics of natural
and constructed features and boundaries on the earth
HUMINT - ANSWER✔✔ Derived from information collected and provided by
human sources:
- Interrogations: captured or detained person
- Source Operations: walk-ins, developed sources, and unwitting persons
- Debriefings: friendly forces, refugees/displaced, returnees, volunteers
SIGINT - ANSWER✔✔ Produced by exploiting foreign communication systems and
non-communication emitters
, - ELINT: emitters (OPELINT: location, movement, employment, tactics, and
activity; TECHELINT: parameters of the signal like frequency, wavelength,
function, modes, limitations, vulnerabilities, capability, etc)
- FISINT (foreign instrumentation SIGINT): technical analysis of data intercepted
from foreign equipment like telemetry, interrogators, tracking, fusing, arming and
firing command systems, and video datalinks
MASINT - ANSWER✔✔ - Produced by quantitative and qualitative analysis of
physical attributes of targets and events to detect, tag, track, characterize, locate,
and identify fixed and dynamic targets and sources
- Specialized technically derived measurements of the physical phenomenon
intrinsic to an object or event
Sources of MASINT include: - ANSWER✔✔ - EO Data: emitted or reflected energy
- Radar: radar energy reflected
- Radio Frequency: radio freq/electromagnetic pulse with nuclear testing or high-
energy events
- Geophysical: transmitted through the earth
- Materials: gas, liquid, solid samples
- Nuclear radiation
OSINT - ANSWER✔✔ - Based on open source information
- Susceptible to manipulation and deception
TECHINT - ANSWER✔✔ - Derived from the exploitation of foreign material and
scientific information
- Begins with acquisition of the equipment
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