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Parent topics

• Intelligence (information gathering) [r]: The practice of finding information on opponents, or potential opponents. ^[e]
• Intelligence collection management [r]: Assigning questions to various collection techniques, reflecting the techniques available and the priority of the information need. Includes the process of categorizing information learned for subsequent analysis, and assigning probabilities of accuracy to the raw information ^[e]

Subtopics

• Electro-optical MASINT [r]: A subdiscipline of measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), which has similarities to but complements imagery intelligence (IMINT); it does not form images, but validates them and produces information on phenomena that emit, absorb, or reflect electromagnetic energy in the infrared, visible light, or ultraviolet spectra, where the value is knowledge of the type of energy detected ^[e]
  • Multispectral scanning [r]: A means of remote sensing in which different wavelengths of reflected or transmitted energy, most often visible light or infrared, are recorded digitally for each pixel of an image ^[e]
  • Spectroscopic MASINT [r]: A electro-optical measurement and signature intelligence technique to measure the electromagnetic spectrum reflected from or emitted by an object, typically within the infrared through ultraviolet wavelength range, and compare it to spectral signatures of known objects ^[e]
    • Spatial resolution [r]: In spectroscopic MASINT and other remote sensing, the correspondence between each recorded pixel and the square real-world area that the pixel covers ^[e]
    • Spectral resolution [r]: In multispectral scanning, the number of discrete frequency (or equivalent) bands recorded in an individual pixel. Remember that relatively coarse spectral resolution from one sensor, such as the spectroscopic analyzer that reveals a "bush" is painted plaster, may greatly enhance the ultimate value of a different sensor with finer spectral resolution. ^[e]
    • Radiometric resolution [r]: The number of levels of energy recorded, per pixel, in each band of a multispectral sensor ^[e]
    • Temporal resolution [r]: The intervals at which the target is sensed by a remote sensing or measurement and signature intelligence sensor. This is meaningful only in synthetic imaging, comparison over a longer time base, or in producing full-motion imagery. ^[e]
    • Geospatial resolution [r]: The quality of mapping pixels, especially in multiple passes of a remote sensing or measurement and signature intelligence sensor, to known geographic or other stable references. ^[e]
  • Terrestrial nonimaging infrared MASINT [r]: a subset of electro-optical MASINT and measurement and signature intelligence, which senses energy, energy differences, or energy spectra in the infrared wavelengths, using ground-based sensors ^[e]
  • RC-135 COBRA BALL [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Geophysical MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Sonar [r]: A contraction of sound navigation and ranging, formally includes the active mode in which a pulse goes out and a receiver measures the echo. Also includes hydrophones or passive, listen-only systems. ^[e]
• Materials MASINT [r]: A discipline involving the measurement of signatures from the collection, processing, and analysis of gas, liquid, or solid samples; it complements technical intelligence: a technical intelligence analyst would work with a captured example of the weapon, or at least pieces of it, to come to that understanding of the propellant, while an analyst of this technique would infer the propellant through analysis of the exhaust ^[e]
  • Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations ^[e]
  • Chemical weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Radar MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Identification friend or foe [r]: Military electronic systems that send a secure "don't kill me" signal to friendly forces, to avoid fratricide, usually based on encrypted interaction with a transponder ^[e]
• Radiofrequency MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Operation RAFTER [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Counterproliferation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Signals intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Geospatial intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Human-source intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Reconnaissance Office [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National intelligence organizations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unmanned aerial vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unmanned ground sensor [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unmanned ground vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description