Radiofrequency MASINT/Related Articles

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Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: A variety of intelligence gathering disciplines complementary to the technical "mainstream" of imagery intelligence and signals intelligence. ^[e]

Communications intelligence [r]: The subset of SIGINT concerned with signals intended to be intelligible to human beings, in the form of voice, messages, or images. ^[e]
Electronics intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description

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Imagery intelligence [r]: the practice of taking and interpreting visible and infrared light photographs and video, radar imagery, and other ways to form pictures of subjects of interest ^[e]
Materials MASINT [r]: A discipline involving the measurement of signatures from the collection, processing, and analysis of gas, liquid, or solid samples; it complements technical intelligence: a technical intelligence analyst would work with a captured example of the weapon, or at least pieces of it, to come to that understanding of the propellant, while an analyst of this technique would infer the propellant through analysis of the exhaust ^[e]

National technical means of verification [r]: Euphemism principally for imagery intelligence satellites and other means of strategic arms control verification, principally because the Soviet Union did not want its public to know that they could not prevent Western observation of the state ^[e]
Nuclear MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
Radar MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
Radar [r]: Acronym for "radio detection and ranging"; a system used to locate a distant object by transmission of radio waves and reception of their reflection. ^[e]
SIGINT from 1945 to 1989 [r]: Add brief definition or description
SIGINT ground-based platforms [r]: Fixed, transportable or mobile facilities, on land, which contain signals intelligence sensors ^[e]
SIGINT in the Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
SIGINT ship-based platforms [r]: Signals intelligence collection systems mounted on surface ships ^[e]
SIGINT space-based platforms [r]: Add brief definition or description
Signals intelligence from 1990 to the present [r]: Technology and history of signals intelligence from 1990 to the present time ^[e]
Signals intelligence [r]: the practice of acquiring information through monitoring the electromagnetic signals deliberately trasmitted by an opponent, including communications (COMINT) and non-communications electronics such as radar (ELINT). ^[e]
Vietnam War military technology [r]: Add brief definition or description