GIS for Intelligence Analysis & Production | Data-Driven Intelligence for Robust Decision-Making

Throughout the intelligence cycle, intelligence analysts are tasked with responding to a variety of questions. Intelligence analysts are challenged to integrate data, develop understanding of adversaries, and predict possible outcomes. Esri ArcGIS software provides a robust set of tools for monitoring the locations of known targets, researching enemy signatures, searching for new targets, and discovering the unknown. GIS gives analysts the tools they need to continually produce intelligence in response to a variety of questions.

Integrated intelligence solutions for production and analysis

Monitor
Research
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Discovery
Tradecraft sharing

Monitor

ArcGIS includes tools for monitoring data in real time and creating condition-based alerts to help automate these critical tasks. This allows analysts and decision-makers to maintain situational awareness and understand potential indications and warnings.

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Research

ArcGIS enables analysts to integrate multiple sources of intelligence into a single view over space and time to identify possible patterns. Statistical analysis and machine learning can be used to find outliers and anomalies. The search capabilities of Portal for ArcGIS allow analysts to discover intelligence datasets and products to provide context or answers to research questions.

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Search

ArcGIS provides tools for querying datasets or recognizing objects in imagery to reduce the area being searched. This information can be integrated with real-time intelligence to confirm new adversary locations. ArcGIS can be used to perform suitability analysis that helps identify new areas to be monitored.

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Discovery

ArcGIS provides a framework for activity-based intelligence—a structured method used to improve understanding of networks, drive new data collection, and develop knowledge. ArcGIS also provides tools for fusing data and developing pattern-of-life analysis. These tools work with big data and real-time tools for multi-intelligence (multi-INT) analysis and support the formal method.

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Tradecraft sharing

ArcGIS helps analysts develop, capture, and share their tradecraft. Organizations can create a tradecraft-sharing library where best-practice workflows can be documented and standardized. This flexible environment gives analysts an enhanced ability to respond to changing threats without having to make changes to a program baseline. This helps organizations create an agile production and analysis process.

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ArcGIS AllSource

Streamline data management, receive alerts, visualize relationships, and customize workflows.

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ArcGIS GeoEvent Server

Gain situational awareness from real-time streaming data. Monitor and map moving assets, sensors, and other data feeds.

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ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server

Quickly analyze data across space and time. Examine and understand big data, then take action.

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Integrated intelligence solutions for production and analysis

Monitor

Research

Search

Discovery

Tradecraft sharing

How humans and machines ensure national security

Sensors and systems keep river traffic flowing

Cybersecurity: The geospatial edge

Argentina guards against fish poachers

Products for analysis and production

ArcGIS AllSource

ArcGIS GeoEvent Server

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server

Intelligence cycles

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