Imagery intelligence
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Imagery intelligence (IMINT), pronounced as either as Im-Int or I-Mint, is an intelligence gathering discipline wherein imagery is analyzed to identify information of intelligence value. Imagery used for defense intelligence purposes is generally collected via satellite imagery or aerial photography.
Sidney Cotton's Lockheed 12A, in which he made a high-speed reconnaissance flight in 1940.
Aerial photograph of the missile Test Stand VII at Peenemünde.
Soviet truck convoy deploying missiles near San Cristobal, Cuba, on Oct. 14, 1962 (taken by a U-2)
Serum and Vaccine Institute in Al-A'amiriya, Iraq, as imaged by a US reconnaissance satellite in November 2002.
Sidney Cotton
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Frederick Sidney Cotton was an Australian inventor, photographer and aviation and photography pioneer, responsible for developing and promoting an early colour film process, and largely responsible for the development of photographic reconnaissance before and during World War II. He numbered among his close friends George Eastman, Ian Fleming and Winston Churchill.
Frederick Sidney Cotton c. 1941
Sidney Cotton's postwar Lockheed 12A