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Tasks, activities, and events to collect, manage, analyze, generate, visualize, and provide imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information necessary to support national and defense missions and international arrangements.

The exploitation & analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the earth. Consists of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information. Any one or combination of these three elements may be considered GEOINT.

Analytic Standards Guides analysis and analytic production and states all IC analytic products shall be consistent with the 5 Analytic Standards, including the 9 Analytic Tradecraft Standards. Governs the production and evaluation of analytic products, and articulates the responsibility of the intelligence analysts to strive for excellence, integrity, and rigor. Each IC element shall maintain a program of product evaluation using IC Analytic Standards as the core elements for assessing criteria Serve a common foundation for developing education and training in analytic skills Promote a common ethic for analytic rigor and excellence, and personal integrity Adherence is safeguarded by OD NI Analytic Ombuds

Objective Independent of Political Consideration Timely Based on all available sources of intel information Implements Analytic Tradecraft Standards (nine)

Properly describe the quality and credibility of underlying sources, data and methodologies. Properly express and explain uncertainties associated with major analytic judgments. Must NOT combine a confidence level and a degree of likelihood in the same sentence. Properly distinguish between underlying intelligence information and analysts' assumptions and judgments. Incorporate analysis of alternatives. Demonstrate customer relevance and address implications. Use clear and logical argumentation. Explain change to or consistency of analytic judgments. Make accurate judgments and assessments. Incorporate effective visual information where appropriate.

Sourcing Requirements for Disseminated Analytic Products

Write for Maximum Utility (WMU) Requires collaboration among collectors and analysts involved in generating intelligence products.

Know Your Customers and What They Need Write for Tailored Reuse Products must be discoverable by those who might need them Tradecraft Essential, Not Expendable Timely electronic dissemination is always the goal Train to Think of Customers Inclusively; Write Differently

Provides & manages foreign military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers, and force planners Produces & uses GEOINT products and services to support all-source analysis Manages MIDB and the Joint Reserve Intelligence Program (JRIP) which provides manpower and support to GEOINT operations.

Primary source for GEOINT analysis and products at the national level

Combination of technology, policies, capabilities, doctrine, activities, people, data, and organizations necessary to produce GEOINT in an integrated multi-intelligence, multi-security domain environment. Its mission is to create an integrated, collaborative community of common practice promoting the GEOINT discipline across a diverse group of producers and consumers. It consists of members and partners that produce and employ GEOINT across the full range of national, military, and civil domains. Develops standardized TTPs for GEOINT personnel. Describe the U.S. Government community, capabilities, assets, and other aspects of GEOINT that support U.S. national security decision making and U.S. military operations. Is established in both national Intelligence Community and DoD GEOINT doctrine. Community consists of Members and Partners.

Analyze Assess Predict

A system for analytic resource planning execution across the GEOINT enterprise.

Process of applying analytical techniques to geographically referenced data sets to extract or generate new geographical information or insight. Science of extracting meaning from geospatial data and using GIS to uncover and investigate relationships and patterns in all forms of geospatial data to answer intelligence or military issues. A scientific discipline that brings physical and human geography together in a digital environment in order to solve problems with regard to spatial analysis, physiography, socio-cultural aspects, and temporal relationships.

A tradecraft involving management of the development, approval, and population of geospatial data within NGA's feature/geospatial information database to ensure that it can be used to satisfy customer requirements. Requires knowledge of the wide range of products and a solid understanding of the capabilities of various systems used to support the extraction, analysis, and finishing of in-house, co-production, commodity, and contract data.

Information that identifies the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on the earth and includes: statistical data; information derived from, among other things, remote sensing, mapping, and surveying technologies; and mapping, charting, geodetic data, and related products.

Collection, information extraction, storage, dissemination, and exploitation of geodetic, geomagnetic, imagery, gravimetric, aeronautical, topographic, hydrographic, littoral, cultural, and toponymic data accurately referenced to a precise location on the Earth's surface.

Includes systems, processes, and products; skilled professionals and their specialized tradecraft areas. Encompasses all activities involved in the planning, collection, processing, analysis, exploitation, and dissemination of spatial information in order to gain intelligence about the national security or operational environment, visually depict this knowledge, and fuse the acquired knowledge with other information through analysis and visualization processes.

Application of skills, technology, techniques, leadership, continuing education, mentoring, special experiences, and knowledge of GEOINT in one or more occupational specialties.

DNI-chartered forum for GEOINT. This Committee also provides a venue for community members to discuss, coordinate, and vote on substantive issues of common concern, and to develop recommendations on high-priority issues for the GFM or DNI. The GEOCOM is comprised of civilian Senior Executive Service (SES)/DISL and military Flag Officer (GOFO)-level members from key government GEOINT stakeholders, including the IC, DoD, and federal civil agencies, which are represented by the Civil Applications Committee (CAC)—a permanent NSG Partner. Administers subcommittees and working groups composed of subject matter experts from GEOCOM-member organizations. Each subcommittee is responsible for a specific GEOINT discipline such as collection, information systems and architecture, analysis and production, and training and professional development

Science of converting information, extracted from imagery, into intelligence about activities, issues, objects, installations, and /or areas of interest

The technical, geographic, and intelligence information derived through the interpretation or analysis of imagery and collateral materials.

Tradecrafts involving the generation, collection, duplication, analysis, modification, and visualization of images. Uses advanced techniques to identify objects that cannot be detected by the human eye. Tradecraft / specializations: precision mensuration, radar, spectral, infrared, and other specialized collection systems.

A GEOINT tradecraft involving acquisition, analysis, compilation, and dissemination of maritime safety information to populate and update nautical databases to support the Digital Nautical Chart, hardcopy charts, digital publications, and Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems. Marine Analysts generate mission specific datasets, promulgate worldwide navigational warnings, and respond to queries from foreign hydrographic offices and the users of our products and services.

Intelligence obtained through clandestine or overt HUMINT activities, or operations and activities utilizing human sources or other human assets.

The art and science of understanding, representing, and forecasting activities of individuals, groups, organizations, and social networks with a geo-temporal context. Human Geography professionals gather, assess, and evaluate source materials and ensure its quality and suitability to build foundational data and apply knowledge and expertise in physical, socio-cultural, and political aspects of countries, regions, and urban areas to support national security goals, concerns, and strategies. This data is analyzed to characterize events, discover relationships and trends, infer conclusions, and predict behaviors.

Characterizing general patterns of people and groups within the context of their environment. Analysis is both exploratory and explanatory in nature, based on the data collected and the area of interest.

Aims to provide decision makers and commanders with actionable intelligence. Social patterns and understanding of key attributes are the goal. Areas of interest or factors to consider are reduced and the mission questions drive the effort to address initial questions and hypotheses.

Chaired by the GFM, is the three-star equivalent functional management advisory council of the NSG. Members discuss strategic, community-wide GEOINT issues and jointly address areas of common concern. The GFM brings a variety of issues before the NSMC for review, deliberation, endorsement, and/or decision. Commonwealth "Five Eyes (FVEY)" counterparts and issues are included at the discretion of the GFM.

A documented set of business rules and technical specifications applicable to all aspects of GEOINT and suitable for analysis and visual representation of physical features and geographically-referenced security-related activities. Developed, prescribed, mandated, and enforced by NSG Functional Manager.

Maps ocean floor and measures underwater depth

Physical features of water bodies and land areas adjacent to those bodies of water

Scale, Type of Map, Reference system (datum type), Legend

Attempts to use one value to describe an entire data set.

Describes a data set by the amount of variation of the data's measured values from the central tendency.

Tool that houses the data for the analytic resource planning and execution across the GEOINT Enterprise.

A measurement of distance used by GPS to determine location.

Surveyors measure Angles between 2 known points to derive an unknown point.

Compares the relationship between different sensors and physical characteristics.

Assessment, Correlation, & Conversion of collected data into usable format for analysis, production, and application by end users.

Highly selective, require special operational attention, and are current critical requirements.

1. Direction, Planning & Requirements Management 2. Discover & Obtain GEOINT 3. Task & Collect 4. Processing & Exploitation 5. Analysis, Production & Visualization 6. Value-added 7. Dissemination, Sharing & Storage

1. Define the Environment 2. Describe Influences of the Environment 3. Assess Threats and Hazards 4. Develop Analytic Conclusions

Aggregation of geospatial data to facilitate spatial analysis and synthesis across information sources

A technique used to anticipate outcomes, trends, or expected future behavior of a system using statistics and modeling.

The systems ability to collect the requested information, output quality, and location accuracy. Include dwell time, platform/sensor range, timeliness, and revisit time.

Length of time a platform/sensor can maintain access to the target. Most important consideration for persistent surveillance, tracking, threat warning, and time-sensitive targeting, especially involving mobile targets.

Determined which platforms can reach a location.

Time required to complete collection/s and is calculated/estimated based on the tactical situation and local circumstances.

Threat, terrain, contaminations, solar position, electromagnetic interference, and weather.

Specific areas within a point target.

Size, Shape, Shadow, Tone, Texture, Pattern, Location, Associations, and Seasonal Effect assist with photo interpretation.

A measure of the amount of light reflected by an object.

The frequency of tonal changes across the image of a feature.

Reveals information about the about the shape, size, and construction of features.

Limits identification to the class of features to which the unknown object belongs.

Spatial arrangement of features in an area.

Examining the large area and features around a feature being examined, their arrangement reflects the processes that placed them there and often their function.

Regional aspect of associations. Appearance and occurrence of many features will vary in different parts of the world.

Geometric measurement of a feature or location from monoscopic and stereoscopic imagery.

Art, science, and technology of extracting information about of objects, phenomena, and environment based on a mathematical sensor model.

Science of mathematically determining the size, shape, and orientation of Earth, and the nature of its gravity field in four dimensions.

The physics of the Earth and its environment in space. Includes the study of geodesy, geomagnetism, paleo magnetism, seismology, hydrology, space physics, aeronomy, tectonophysics, and atmospheric science.

Average value.

Observed middle value of a data set.

Calculated middle of a data set. Subtract lowest from highest then divide by 2.

Most prevalent value of a data set.

Measures how close a database representation is to a true value.

Refers to the consistency of a measurement method.

Process for identifying the best asset to answer the Essential Elements of Information.

First sending of data to a library. IDS-D sends NTM info to NIL for long term storage.

Used to refine the specific information required.

Sends NTM info directly to NIL for long term storage.

Maintains NSG Warfighter Imagery Library (NWIL) to increase NTM support to warfighters.

Compiles multi-intelligence ISR tasking at the theater level.

Commercial imagery library.

Used to task ONIR collection, exploitation, and production assets within National and DOD environments.

Detection, Identification, Evaluation, & Mensuration