• Source: Foreign instrumentation signals intelligence

Foreign instrumentation signals intelligence, FISINT (Foreign Instrumentation Signature INTelligence) is intelligence from the interception of foreign electromagnetic emissions associated with the testing and operational deployment of foreign aerospace, surface, and subsurface systems. Since it deals with signals that have communicational content, it is a subset of Communications Intelligence (COMINT), which, in turn, is a subset of SIGINT. Unlike general COMINT signals, the content of FISINT signals is not in regular human language, but rather in machine to machine (instrumentation) language or in a combination of regular human language and instrumentation language. FISINT is also considered as a subset of MASINT (measurement and signature intelligence).
Typical examples of such communication include:

Telemetry data (TELINT). Missiles, satellites and other remotely monitored devices often transmit streams of data concerning their location, speed, engine status and other metrics.
Video data links. These may be from UAVs or from satellites used for reconnaissance.
Remote access and control transmissions, such as from remote keyless systems and wireless traffic light control systems.
Command signals used in teleoperation, such as the control of aerial vehicles, missiles and remotely-controlled robots.




Telecommunications


In telecommunications, the term FISINT has the following meanings:

Intelligence information derived from electromagnetic emissions associated with the testing and operational deployment of foreign aerospace, surface, and subsurface systems.
Technical information and intelligence information derived from the intercept of foreign instrumentation signals by other than the intended recipients. Foreign instrumentation signals intelligence is a category of signals intelligence.
Foreign instrumentation signals include but are not limited to signals from telemetry, beaconry, electronic interrogators, tracking/fusing/arming/firing command systems, and video data links.




See also


SIGINT: Signals intelligence
COMINT: Communications intelligence
ELINT: Electronic intelligence
HUMINT: Human intelligence
IMINT: Imagery intelligence
MASINT: Measurement and signature intelligence
Missile guidance
Intelligence collection management




References

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• Foreign instrumentation signals intelligence
• Signals intelligence
• List of intelligence gathering disciplines
• Non-communications signals
• Pine Gap (TV series)
• 2010s global surveillance disclosures
• List of U.S. government and military acronyms
• Signals intelligence operational platforms by nation
• Global surveillance
• National Reconnaissance Office