Stormwater staff ask whether satellite imagery on a public map layer is OSINT or classified ISR. What is the correct classification?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A weather map on the library kiosk is not a spy-satellite briefing. If the imagery is served on a public map layer, it is an open source. Classified collection lives behind a very different door.
Full Explanation
Publicly available map and satellite-imagery layers are OSINT. They are not classified ISR simply because the sensor was in space, and viewing them as a municipal employee does not convert them into SIGINT. Digital delivery also does not disqualify them; paper versus pixels is irrelevant to the public-availability test. Stormwater analysis can cite public map imagery with the same source discipline used for any other open web artifact.