📻 Radio Frequency Intelligence (RFINT)
The Electromagnetic Spectrum as an Intelligence Source
Technical
Sources
3
3 no-auth
Mission domains
3
reach
Data points
3
covered
Related INT
2
disciplines
🔌 Sources for Radio Frequency Intelligence (3)
| Source | Category | Auth | Format | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SatNOGS / WebSDR (RF) Crowd-sourced RF/radio observation network. | RFINT | NONE | json | home↗ api↗ |
| SatNOGS network Crowd-sourced RF observations. | RF/Space | NONE | json | home↗ api↗ |
| WebSDR network Global SDR receivers. | RF | NONE | html | home↗ api↗ |
🎯 Mission Domains served
🎫 Data Points
🔍 Lookup
📊 Pre-built Queries · Radio Frequency Intelligence
🔄 Live Datasets & APIs (2 key-free · ingestible)
| Dataset / API | Format | Endpoint | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SatNOGS / WebSDR (RF) | json | https://network.satnogs.org/api/ | collect |
| SatNOGS network | json | https://network.satnogs.org/api/ | collect |
📜 Playbook — Radio Frequency Intelligence collection
- Direction — frame the requirement for Radio Frequency Intelligence: what decision does this support, by when?
- Collection — collect from the 3 mapped sources (3 free) — filter the catalog by RFINT; capture provenance and observe OPSEC.
- Processing — normalize, de-duplicate and enrich the collected data.
- Analysis — correlate against local holdings; apply ACH; assign confidence.
- Dissemination — open a case, draft a report, share via STIX/MISP.
- 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).
🧩 Advanced Capabilities
🔗 Pivot to related disciplines
✨ Enrichment pathways
🎯 Mission
Radio Frequency Intelligence surveys and characterizes the RF spectrum to detect, decode, fingerprint and geolocate emitters — aircraft, vessels, drones, IoT and navigation systems. It answers which emitters are active where, whom they belong to, and where GNSS jamming or spoofing and unauthorized transmissions are occurring.
📡 Collection methods
- Wideband spectrum survey and waterfall monitoring via software-defined radio
- ADS-B, AIS, ACARS and POCSAG protocol demodulation and decoding
- TDoA / multilateration emitter geolocation from distributed receivers
- RF fingerprinting of transmitters from unintentional emitter characteristics
- GNSS interference (jamming and spoofing) detection and mapping
- Drone control- and video-link RF detection and classification
📚 Key sources & datasets
🎫 Data points produced
🔧 Tools & frameworks
- GNU Radio
- GQRX
- dump1090
- rtl_ais
- Universal Radio Hacker (URH)
- multimon-ng
- SatDump
- Inspectrum
📜 Radio Frequency Intelligence Tradecraft
- Run wideband SDR surveys and pull ADS-B and AIS feeds across the target area and bands
- Demodulate and decode protocols, building a time-stamped emitter log with signal parameters
- Cluster emitters by RF fingerprint and correlate tracks across distributed sensors
- Geolocate emitters via TDoA and tie callsigns and MMSIs to platforms and operators
- Publish an electronic order-of-battle and emitter map with flagged anomalies
- Flag GNSS jamming and spoofed tracks and cue GEOINT and SIGINT
📊 Dashboard KPIs
Emitters trackedBands surveyedGeo-fixesSpoof/jam eventsFingerprints matched
🔍 Pre-built queries
🔗 Cross-discipline pivots
🧩 Advanced Capabilities
Workstation · Copilot · AI Skills · Automation · Playbooks · Lookups · Docs · Reports
🤖 AI Copilot
⚡ AI Skills
🔍 Lookup & Enrich
📚 Docs & Reports
💡 Recommendations
- Explore related tools below
- Automate recurring work via cron