Open-Source Intelligence Gathering and Open-Analysis Intelligence for Biosecurity
Geoff Grossel, Aidan Lyon, Mike Nunn · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2017
Introduction Open-source intelligence is the analysis product of publicly available information that has been collected, sorted and archived. Open-analysis intelligence is the analysis of freely available information that is done out in the open by an engaged user community. A national security agency of some country may mine Twitter for data and analyse this information to predict social uprisings. This would be an example of open-source intelligence, but not of open-analysis intelligence, because the analysis of the information is confidential. An example of open-analysis intelligence is rdtn.org, a website that analysed crowdsourced measurements of radioactivity in Japan during the 2011 earthquake to map actual levels of radioactivity across the nation. We have developed an online system, AquaticHealth.net, that performs both open-source intelligence and open-analysis intelligence with the goal of tracking and forecasting aquatic animal diseases. The result is a an application that provides real-time and relevant information to decisionmakers in a practical way with the ultimate goal of providing early warning and improving response times to aquatic health issues and disease threats. This intelligence platform is also being expanded