CDASA I: Topic 8 Questions 100% Solved!

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 - ANSWERDerived 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 - ANSWERProduced by exploiting foreign communication systems and non-communication emitters 3 Subcategories of SIGINT - ANSWER- COMINT: foreign communications (radio, wire, cell, etc) - 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 - Used by US weapons developers, countermeasure designers, tacticians, and operational forces to prevent technical surprise, reduce adversary advantage, and enhance force protection - Also used to produce on capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities Counterintelligence (CI) - ANSWER- Offensive and defensive