Disciplines

📡 Measurement & Signature Intel (MASINT)

🔌 Sources for Measurement & Signature Intel (5)

🎯 Mission Domains served

🎫 Data Points

🔍 Lookup

📊 Pre-built Queries · Measurement & Signature Intel

📜 Playbook — Measurement & Signature Intel collection

1. Direction — frame the requirement for Measurement & Signature Intel: what decision does this support, by when?
2. Collection — collect from the 5 mapped sources (5 free) — filter the catalog by MASINT; capture provenance and observe OPSEC.
3. Processing — normalize, de-duplicate and enrich the collected data.
4. Analysis — correlate against local holdings; apply ACH; assign confidence.
5. Dissemination — open a case, draft a report, share via STIX/MISP.
6. Feedback — set an alert rule / watchlist to monitor for change.

⚡ AI Skills & Automation

Automate unattended via the cron pipeline (collect → ingest → resolve → enrich → score → alert).

🗃 Data Management

🧩 Advanced Capabilities

🔗 Pivot to related disciplines

✨ Enrichment pathways

🎯 Mission

Measurement & Signature Intelligence detects and characterizes targets by their physical signatures — thermal, spectral, seismic, acoustic, radiometric and radar — that fall outside imagery and communications. It answers what caused an event, what a facility is emitting or producing, and whether a signature is consistent with industrial, chemical or nuclear activity.

📡 Collection methods

• Thermal-IR anomaly detection from multispectral satellite bands (fires, flares, furnaces)
• Spectral and hyperspectral analysis for material and effluent identification
• Seismic and infrasound event detection and source discrimination
• Radiometric and radionuclide monitoring for nuclear signatures
• SAR coherent change detection for ground disturbance and excavation
• Nighttime radiance (VIIRS) analysis of activity and combustion
• Atmospheric plume dispersion modeling of emissions

📚 Key sources & datasets

🎫 Data points produced

🔧 Tools & frameworks

• QGIS
• ESA SNAP
• Google Earth Engine
• ObsPy
• GDAL
• NASA Worldview

📜 Measurement & Signature Intel Tradecraft

1. Task multispectral, thermal and seismic feeds over the area or event of interest
2. Calibrate radiance, atmospherically correct scenes and window seismic waveforms
3. Extract spectral, thermal and seismic signatures and match them against reference libraries
4. Discriminate source type (industrial vs. weapons or nuclear) and geolocate the emitter
5. Release a signature characterization with confidence bounds and coordinates
6. Cue GEOINT and SPACEINT collection and alert on threshold exceedances

📊 Dashboard KPIs

🔍 Pre-built queries

🔗 Cross-discipline pivots

🗃 Data Management

🧩 Advanced Capabilities