The Army recently redesignated the operational
imagery intelligence battalion from the 3rd Military Intelligence Center and renamed it the Army GEOINT Battalion.
A collection manager, potentially located at every level from tactical through strategic, is responsible for determining which intelligence problems commanders want answered and then matching the appropriate collection asset--whether HUMINT, signals intelligence,
imagery intelligence, and so forth-to collect against that requirement.
Also, because the organizations that operate systems have been the very ones responsible for developing the technology these systems use, the intelligence community has sometimes missed opportunities in which two or more technologies might work well in combination; for example, detecting the presence of radar in a region with signals intelligence and then pinpointing its exact location with
imagery intelligence.
The disciplines that play the most critical role in combating WMD, as identified in the commission report, are human intelligence (HUMINT), measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and
imagery intelligence (IMINT).
Although heavily employed for operational needs since its induction at 2ID, the COVN-K system was originally designed by and for United States Forces, Korea J2 to provide signal intelligence, human intelligence, and
imagery intelligence data to military intelligence units.
What the new name symbolizes or connotes is the synthesis of mapping, charting, and geodesy on one hand, and imagery analysis and
imagery intelligence on the other, into the concept of geospatial intelligence, which is really what this agency is about.
The short loop work was done in the intelligence cell via its three workstations, one for fusion of signals-intelligence (SIGINT) and moving-target-indicator (MTI) data; one for
imagery intelligence (IMINT) and human intelligence (HUMINT); and the other for targeting, linked directly to image exploitation.
In particular, it is argued that the three major "INTs," the major intelligence disciplines--signals intelligence (sigint),
imagery intelligence (imint), and human intelligence (humint)--will have to be fundamentally reinvented and this process will have major technical and organizational ramifications.
IDS-D is an automated, high performance information delivery system that receives, profiles, processes and directs large volumes of data at multiple security levels in order to provide timely, relevant, and accurate imagery and
imagery intelligence information to the armed services and intelligence community.
He saw that the special forces group in the Kabul area was not getting the
imagery intelligence as quickly as needed.
The development of the U-2 aircraft caused
imagery intelligence to escalate to the point that our nation's President would personally approve the missions that these planes would make into Soviet airspace.
Army in 2001 as a 35G,
Imagery Intelligence Analyst.