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Parent topics
- Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: A variety of intelligence gathering disciplines complementary to the technical "mainstream" of imagery intelligence and signals intelligence. [e]
Subtopics
- Operation RAFTER [r]: A measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) technique that allowed a remote monitor to determine, passively, the frequency to which a radio receiver was tuned; revelation of the technique allowed it to be prevented [e]
- Superheterodyne [r]: A form of reception in which the frequency of an incoming signal is mixed with a locally generated signal and converted to an intermediate frequency in order to facilitate amplification and the rejection of unwanted signals. [e]
- TEMPEST [r]: Formally, the unclassified code word for means of protection against information disclosure by inadvertent leakage of radiated or conducted energy from electrical or acoustic devices; more broadly interpreted as passive means of intelligence collection of such leakage; generally a considered part of measurement and signature intelligence, primarily the radiofrequency MASINT subset thereof [e]
- TEAPOT [r]: Never officially confirmed, but believed to be the code word both for protective measures against, and intelligence collection using, energy actively directed against vibrating surfaces or resonant cavities, such as lasers against windowpanes vibrating with the acoustic energy of conversations in a room; usually part of radiofrequency MASINT [e]
- HIJACK [r]: Add brief definition or description
- NONSTOP [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Electromagnetic pulse MASINT [r]: Intelligence derived technically from the characteristics of electromagnetic pulses generated by large explosions, usually nuclear; part of the discipline of measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) and part of the national technical means of verification in arms control [e]
Other related topics
- 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]
- Electronic intelligence [r]: Collection and analysis of electronic signals not intended to be intelligible to humans, such as radar or navigational aids [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]
