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106.1 Discuss the responsibilities of the following organizations in the collection, production, and dissemination of GEOINT
a. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
b. National Reconnaissance Organization
- NGA - functional manager of GEOINT
- - provides time, relevant, and accurate GEOINT support to the IC
- NRO - responsible for integrating unique and innovative spacebased recon tech.
- -responsible for the engineering, development, acquisition, and operation of space recon systems and related intelligence activities
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106.2 Discuss the purpose, capabilities, and limitations of GEOINT.
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106.3 Explain the differences between the following types of imagery to include the
strengths and weaknesses of each:
a. Synthetic Aperture Radar
illuminates objects with microwave energy pulses. Applies signal processing to a series of pulses to produce a single image
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106.3 Explain the differences between the following types of imagery to include the
strengths and weaknesses of each:
b. Infrared
- uses infrared portion of EM spectrum to detect heat/radiance
- Detects presence of living things, vehicles and equipment.
- Day or night, but limited to weather or light conditions
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106.3 Explain the differences between the following types of imagery to include the
strengths and weaknesses of each:
c. Electro Optical
- passive sensor using natural energy
- Ultraviolet to infrared
- Think regular B&W photo
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106.3 Explain the differences between the following types of imagery to include the
strengths and weaknesses of each:
d. Full Motion Video
- uses video that can be played to show pattern of life, activity, etc.
- Provides continuous observation
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106.3 Explain the differences between the following types of imagery to include the
strengths and weaknesses of each:
e. Hyper Spectral Imagery
- EO, but with a much greater bandwith for color and detail
- EO
- Multi-spectral
- Hyper Spectral
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106.3 Explain the differences between the following types of imagery to include the
strengths and weaknesses of each:
f. Hand held imagery / photography
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106.3 Explain the differences between the following types of imagery to include the
strengths and weaknesses of each:
g. LIDAR
- Light Detection and Ranging
- -uses laser pulses to break through canopy and vegetation or similar.
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106.4 Discuss the risks associated with using single source intelligence for GEOINT.
- susceptible to deception
- weather limited
- Highly sought after
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106.5 Discuss the capabilities of GEOINT collection assets:
a. National Technical Means
b. Airborne assets
NTM
- Airborne
- P-8
- MQ-4
- MQ-8
- MQ-27
- RQ-11
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106.6 Discuss how GEOINT is tasked
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106.7 Discuss the process for GEOINT collection, transmission, and dissemination.
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106.8 Describe the purpose of NGA’s NCO.
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106.9 Define NIIRS and discuss the NIIRS scale.
- subjective scale used for rating the quality of imagery acquired based on readability.
- 10 levels: 0 (worst) - 9 (best)
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