Welcome to OSINT Exercise #012!
Task briefing:
The screenshot below shows satellite imagery from a coastal area. Each red pixel represents a 30 metre centre point containing a thermal anomaly. The data is from January.
Please analyse the screenshot and answer the following questions:
a) Which website was used to produce the image below?
b) Which is the country seen in the image?
c) The screenshot shows data from a specific date. Which is the date?
Click here to open the image on a new window.
Exercise level:
For beginners: a) Easy, b) Hard, c) Medium
For experts: a) Easy, b) Medium, c) Easy

Want more? Check out the List of OSINT Exercises.
Finished? Well done! Check if your answers are correct.
Stuck? Watch the video below on how to complete OSINT Exercise #012.
User Walkthroughs:
- walnut – “Challenge to “OSINT Exercise #012”“
- Donovan Engelmann – “Solution to Gralhix’s OSINT Exercise #012“
- jack_dev – “Solution to Gralhix’s OSINT Exercise #012“
- [ES] Enyomir – “Solución al Ejercicio 012 OSINT — Blog de Sofía Santos” ⭐
- Legion Soul – “OSINT Exercise #012“
- OSINT Journey – “OSINT Exercise 12:“
- Tomi McCluskey – “Gralhix OSINT Exercise #012” ⭐
- Mohamed H. Ahmed – “Solving the Challenge: A walkthrough to Sophia Santos’ #012 OSINT Exercise“
- Ragmthy – “OSINT Exercise 012“
- Victor Mwai – “OSINT(Exercise 12)“
- Dam Coffee – “Gralhix Exercise #012“
- Cyber-Jot – “Sofia Santos’s OSINT Exercise #012“
Why is my walkthrough not showing up above?
• I’m no longer accepting walkthroughs for this specific exercise.
• One or more of your answers were incorrect or missing.
• You asked me not to include it on the list, and I’m respecting your wishes.
• You may have sent me an incorrect or incomplete link.
• You linked to a website that tracks who sees your articles (e.g, LinkedIn).
• I suspected AI was heavily involved in the production of your walkthrough.
• I suspected you just wrote a walkthrough based on my video, and not your own work.
• I haven’t had the time to actually read, and add it yet (give me at least a week).
• I forgot about it (doesn’t usually happen, but I’m not flawless).
Why do some walkthroughs have a ⭐ in front of them?
The golden star emojis were introduced on the second year anniversary of OSINT Exercises. I will be adding them to walkthroughts that I feel stand out and deserve extra recognition. You can read more about my reasoning behind the decision in my blog post: “Two Years of OSINT Exercises: The Importance of Community Learning.”
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