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Topic 2 IFPC Topic Area5 IFPC Topic Area 2,
IFPC Exam Questions
and Complete Answers
Graded A+
What is GEOINT (Geospatial Intelligence)? - Answer: Exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial
information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced
activities on the Earth.
•Imagery
•IMINT
•Geospatial information
What is IMINT (Imagery Intelligence)? - Answer: •Technical geographic and intelligence information,
derived through the interpretation or analysis of imagery and collateral materials.
•Wide variety of platforms and sensors, including EO, radar, IR, multi- and hyperspectral, and laser
sensors
•A product that is the result of processing and exploiting ray imagery (information) and creating an
analyzed product (intelligence)
What is GEOINT - Imagery? - Answer: • A likeness or presentation of any natural or man-made feature,
or related object or activity, combined with the positional data acquired at the same time.
•Includes products produced by:
-Satellites
-Airborne platforms
-Unmanned aerial vehicles
, *Handheld Photography can be considered imagery
What is HUMINT (Human Intelligence)? - Answer: Intelligence derived from information collected and
provided by human sources
•"Walk-in"
•Developed sources
•Unwitting persons
•Debriefing
-Friendly forces personnel
-Refugees/displaced persons
-Returnees
Volunteers
What is SIGINT (Signals Intelligence)? - Answer: • Intelligence Produced by exploiting foreign
communications systems and non-communications emitters
•Often used for cueing other sensors to potential targets of interest. Example: Intelligence identifies
activity of interest may be used to cue GEOINT to confirm that activity
What is MASINT (Measurement and Signatures Intelligence)? - Answer: Information produced by
quantitative and qualitative analysis of physical attributes of targets and events to characterize, locate,
and identify them.
•Derived from specialized, technical measurements of physical phenomena intrinsic to an object or
event; it includes the use of quantitative signatures to interpret the data
•EO - electro-optical data, emitted or reflected energy across the visible/IR portion of the
electromagnetic spectrum: ultraviolet (UV), visible, infrared (IR) and near-IR
•Radar - microwave energy reflected (re-radiated) from a target or objective
Radio - radio-frequency/electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) emissions associated with nuclear testing or other
high-energy events, for the purpose of determining power levels, operating characteristics, and
signatures of advanced technology weapons, power, and propulsion systems
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