Apply Geospatial Tools for OSINT

Learn to use OpenStreetMap, Overpass Turbo, and satellite imagery to map and analyze areas of interest for operational planning.

Set Up Effective Alert Systems

Configure Google Alerts, RSS feeds, and social media notifications to track developments in your areas of interest without constant manual monitoring.

Analyse News, Topics, and Trends

Identify relevant coverage, monitor emerging narratives, and understand how regional developments shape the operational environment.

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This course equips practitioners with the skills to monitor geographic areas, assess operational environments, and track unfolding events using open-source techniques. You'll learn to build structured regional assessments, produce intelligence reports for decision-makers, and manage Western-centric bias by incorporating local perspectives and cultural context. Essential for anyone supporting deployment planning, executive travel, protest monitoring, or crisis response.

ESTIMATED TIME TO COMPLETE

This course takes approximately 5–7 hours to complete. It is entirely self-paced, allowing you to progress through the material according to your schedule.

WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR

This course is designed for OSINT practitioners, intelligence analysts, and investigators who need to monitor geographic areas and track dynamic events. 

It suits those supporting deployment planning, executive travel security, protest monitoring, crisis response, or geopolitical analysis. Foundational OSINT knowledge is assumed.

PREREQUISITES

OSINT Primer (recommended) or equivalent foundational OSINT experience. Basic familiarity with search techniques and source evaluation is assumed.

WHAT's NEXT?

Person of Interest & Social Media Investigations extends your ability to identify key actors and influencers encountered during area monitoring, providing comprehensive techniques for investigating individuals across multiple platforms.

AI Essentials provides the critical foundation for understanding generative AI before applying it to your work. Learn how AI produces outputs, recognise hallucinations and bias, and understand why human oversight remains essential when processing the volumes of data encountered in area monitoring.

COURSE CURRICULUM

    1. Welcome

    2. Before We Begin

    3. What is Location and Event Intelligence in OSINT

    4. The Building Blocks

    5. Framing Intelligence Requirements for Area Assessments

    6. The Collection Compass and Framing the Work

    7. Quiz: Introduction and Framework

    1. CCTV Monitoring and Publicly Accessible Camera Systems

    2. Transport Monitoring (Sea, Air and Land)

    3. Advanced Mapping Techniques

    4. Quiz: Area of Interest Monitoring

    1. Structured Approach to Regional Assessment

    2. Understanding the Operational Environment

    3. News, Topics, and Trends Analysis

    4. Threat Actors Identification and Profiling

    5. Health Activity and Disease Surveillance

    6. NGO Activity and Civil Society Mapping

    7. Bringing It Together: Comprehensive Regional Assessment

    8. Quiz: Region Assessments

    1. Finding and Investigating Events

    2. Alerts & Triggers

    3. Quiz: Event Monitoring

    1. Course Conclusion & Next Steps

    2. Post Course Survey

About this course

  • $499.00
  • 24 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content