Introduction Occasionally you will come across videos that will tell you exactly where they were filmed. You'll get excited thinking that geolocating it will be extremely fast and easy. You jump to Google Maps, write the name of the village and nothing. Google has no idea what you mean. You try another similar word. Maybe... Continue Reading →
Introduction Open source data is all around us and there are endless ways to take advantage of it. Whilst there are many people working in OSINT who track down individuals, organisations, and/or locations, I do a wider version of that. My job involves monitoring, analysing and investigating conflict between countries, organised groups and/or civilians. For... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction The ability to find localised information is extremely important when carrying out live investigations. Often in my workday as an OSINT analyst I am tasked with finding data on ongoing events to help gather more evidence about what happened. This... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction Part of any OSINT investigation is finding reliable data that can be analysed and verified in order to end up on a report that, later on, can be disseminated into the wider public. As a member of a big team... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction A few days ago I came across a video on twitter that at first seemed fairly easy to geolocate. The tweet mentioned the name of the city where the incident was happening and the type of infrastructure affected. The footage... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) What happens when you have to geolocate a photo or a video and there's no available google street view or panoramic images to help you out? Sometimes you will have to find the coordinates of locations so remote that there are... Continue Reading →
And how relying on information from the news can set you back. (Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction As the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military unfolds, the world watches. Many of us want to do something but what? Do we, as individuals, hold any... Continue Reading →
And how those changes can help you chronolocate an event. (Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) It is absolutely phenomenal knowing that we live in a time where anyone with an internet connection can easily gain access, for free, to satellite imagery gathered from satellites orbiting Earth. Every... Continue Reading →
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) The best tool to (correctly!) identify a vehicle’s brand and model using AI. Whilst trying to identify locations and/or locate people one must have a wealth of information available. Some people are great at identifying cars’ brands and models just by looking... Continue Reading →
Sofia Santos | OSINT Analysis & Tutorials 