GEOINT operations - -Tasks, activities, Objective
and events to collect, manage, analyze,
generate, visualize, and provide imagery, Independent of Political Consideration
imagery intelligence, and geospatial information
necessary to support national and defense Timely
missions and international arrangements.
Based on all available sources of intel information
GEOINT - -The exploitation & analysis of Implements Analytic Tradecraft Standards (nine)
imagery and geospatial information to describe,
assess, and visually depict physical features and
geographically referenced activities on the earth. ICD 203 Nine Analytic Tradecraft Standards -
-Properly describe the quality and
Consists of imagery, imagery intelligence, and credibility of underlying sources, data and
geospatial information. Any one or combination methodologies.
of these three elements may be considered
GEOINT. Properly express and explain uncertainties
associated with major analytic judgments. Must
NOT combine a confidence level and a degree of
ICD 203 - -Analytic Standards likelihood in the same sentence.
Guides analysis and analytic production and Properly distinguish between underlying
states all IC analytic products shall be consistent intelligence information and analysts'
with the 5 Analytic Standards, including the 9 assumptions and judgments.
Analytic Tradecraft Standards.
Incorporate analysis of alternatives.
Governs the production and evaluation of
analytic products, and articulates the Demonstrate customer relevance and address
responsibility of the intelligence analysts to strive implications.
for excellence, integrity, and rigor.
Use clear and logical argumentation.
Each IC element shall maintain a program of
product evaluation using IC Analytic Standards Explain change to or consistency of analytic
as the core elements for assessing criteria judgments.
Serve a common foundation for developing Make accurate judgments and assessments.
education and training in analytic skills
Incorporate effective visual information where
Promote a common ethic for analytic rigor and appropriate.
excellence, and personal integrity
Adherence is safeguarded by OD NI Analytic ICD 206 - -Sourcing Requirements for
Ombuds Disseminated Analytic Products
ICD 203 Five Analytic Standards - - ICD 208 - -Write for Maximum Utility
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(WMU) common practice promoting the GEOINT
discipline across a diverse group of producers
Requires collaboration among collectors and and consumers. It consists of members and
analysts involved in generating intelligence partners that produce and employ GEOINT
products. across the full range of national, military, and civil
domains.
ICD 208 Six Principles - -Know Your Develops standardized TTPs for GEOINT
Customers and What They Need personnel.
Write for Tailored Reuse Describe the U.S. Government community,
capabilities, assets, and other aspects of
Products must be discoverable by those who GEOINT that support U.S. national security
might need them decision making and U.S. military operations.
Tradecraft Essential, Not Expendable Is established in both national Intelligence
Community and DoD GEOINT doctrine.
Timely electronic dissemination is always the
goal Community consists of Members and Partners.
Train to Think of Customers Inclusively; Write
Differently NSG member common tasks - -Analyze
Assess
Predict
DIA - -Provides & manages foreign military
intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers,
and force planners GEOINT Program of Analysis (GPoA) - -A
system for analytic resource planning execution
Produces & uses GEOINT products and services across the GEOINT enterprise.
to support all-source analysis
Manages MIDB and the Joint Reserve Geospatial Analysis - -Process of applying
Intelligence Program (JRIP) which provides analytical techniques to geographically
manpower and support to GEOINT operations. referenced data sets to extract or generate new
geographical information or insight.
NGA - -Primary source for GEOINT Science of extracting meaning from geospatial
analysis and products at the national level data and using GIS to uncover and investigate
relationships and patterns in all forms of
geospatial data to answer intelligence or military
NSG - -Combination of technology, issues.
policies, capabilities, doctrine, activities, people,
data, and organizations necessary to produce A scientific discipline that brings physical and
GEOINT in an integrated multi-intelligence, multi- human geography together in a digital
security domain environment. Its mission is to environment in order to solve problems with
create an integrated, collaborative community of regard to spatial analysis, physiography, socio-
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