Materials MASINT/Related Articles

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]

Antigen [r]: A molecule that induces an immune response, such as bee pollen or proteins from viruses or bacteria. ^[e]
Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations ^[e]
Chemical Corps [r]: A branch of military service concerned with detection and decontamination of chemical, biological and radiological agents; smoke generation; and, in the past, offensive chemical warfare and biological warfare ^[e]
Chemical Weapons Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
Chemical terrorism [r]: Terrorism that uses the toxic effects of chemicals to kill, injure, or otherwise adversely affect its targets. ^[e]
Counterproliferation [r]: The set of activities that detect and monitor the threat of weapons of special concern against one's own nation and one's allies. ^[e]
Spectroscopic MASINT [r]: A electro-optical measurement and signature intelligence technique to measure the electromagnetic spectrum reflected from or emitted by an object, typically within the infrared through ultraviolet wavelength range, and compare it to spectral signatures of known objects ^[e]

Electro-optical MASINT [r]: A subdiscipline of measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), which has similarities to but complements imagery intelligence (IMINT); it does not form images, but validates them and produces information on phenomena that emit, absorb, or reflect electromagnetic energy in the infrared, visible light, or ultraviolet spectra, where the value is knowledge of the type of energy detected ^[e]
Geophysical MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
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]

Radar MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
Radiofrequency MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
Scientific and technical intelligence [r]: In contrast to TECHINT, which is directed to specific materiel, working at a strategic/national level to study foreign materiel, professional publications and presentations, etc., to determine the level of research & development in a country, the manufacturing processes it can use, its priorities for research, etc. ^[e]
Technical intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
U.S. intelligence analysis of patterns of infectious diseases and impacts [r]: The United States intelligence community model for the spread and world impact of infectious disease ^[e]
U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities [r]: An overview over activities of the United States intelligence community, specifically dealing with arms control, weapons of mass destruction and weapons counterproliferation. ^[e]
Vietnam War military technology [r]: Military technology in support of ground operations, including helicopters and air assault, either associated with or introduced in Vietnam, between 1962 and 1975 ^[e]