This course enables participants to enhance existing intelligence practices by integrating core Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) skills with key geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) tools and data capabilities. It is delivered by an experienced practitioner with over 20 years of intelligence experience who continues to practise and update methodologies.
The programme focuses on safe and effective intelligence collection, advanced search techniques, and data integration across multiple domains. Training combines instruction with practical exercises to reinforce learning. The course concludes with an integrational capstone exercise in which participants demonstrate and consolidate the skills acquired.
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply safe practices for intelligence collection in online environments
- Use web browsers, search engines, AI tools, and open-source resources for intelligence gathering
- Conduct social media collection and analysis for GEOINT
- Use mapping and geospatial resources to identify patterns and areas of interest
- Automate collection using scrapers and APIs
- Integrate and analyse intelligence data from multiple sources
- Validate information, including identifying misinformation and disinformation
- Present intelligence findings in written and briefing formats
Safe and Effective Online Collection
- Security and privacy practices for online environments
- Use of web browsers, search engines, AI tools, and associated risks
- Data environments, tools, techniques, and open-source integrations
- Search capabilities across multiple platforms
- Social media collection and analysis for geospatial purposes
- Use of mapping and geospatial resources for data collection
Data Integration and Analysis
- Automating the collection of geospatial markers from open sources
- Social media collection across platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok
- Information validation techniques, including identifying misinformation and disinformation
- Building and integrating scrapers and APIs for automated collection
Applied Practice and Capstone Exercise
- Integrated collection exercise based on current events
- Group-based collection, processing, and analysis
- Presentation of findings in written and briefing formats
- Identification of skill gaps to support workplace application