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I make videos on maps, data & OSINT :]
My aim is to provide helpful content on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), satellite imagery, geolocation, maps, data, investigative journalism and curious bytes so that no matter who you are, or where you are in the world, you can learn how to identify, verify and analyse information online.
My aim is to provide helpful content on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), satellite imagery, geolocation, maps, data, investigative journalism and curious bytes so that no matter who you are, or where you are in the world, you can learn how to identify, verify and analyse information online.
OSINT At Home #24 - Find Where, When, What & Who in a Photo
This tutorial is part 24 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial covers the basics of an OSINT investigation that start with analysing a photo, especially one which might be involved in human rights work or an investigation into conflict-related violence.
The tutorial focusses on guiding you through how to use open source intelligence techniques to answer fundamental questions when analysing a photo, or a video, namely WHERE, WHEN, WHAT and WHO. Below are the timecodes for these:
WHERE: 00:00:45
WHEN: 00:04:39
WHAT: 00:10:36
WHO: 00:13:01
The image I have used in this tutorial is one that I found while doing research on the initial violence that happened after the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021. If you would like to follow along, the image used in this tutorial can be found below.
Human Rights Watch image link: www.hrw.org/modal/100772
Getty image link: www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/police-block-a-road-leading-to-the-city-hall-as-protesters-news-photo/1301914627
The OSINT At Home series is useful for those looking to find digital breadcrumbs and pick up some methods of open source intelligence (OSINT), digital investigations and good old plain research. No matter who you are, or where you are in the world, you can follow these tutorials from home with publicly available information to answer questions such as who, what, where and when.
CREDITS FOR THIS TUTORIAL
All links, images and videos used for tutorial purposes and editorial purposes to analyse ongoing events in the media. Imagery featured on Google Earth is credited to those seen on the screen.
The tutorial focusses on guiding you through how to use open source intelligence techniques to answer fundamental questions when analysing a photo, or a video, namely WHERE, WHEN, WHAT and WHO. Below are the timecodes for these:
WHERE: 00:00:45
WHEN: 00:04:39
WHAT: 00:10:36
WHO: 00:13:01
The image I have used in this tutorial is one that I found while doing research on the initial violence that happened after the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021. If you would like to follow along, the image used in this tutorial can be found below.
Human Rights Watch image link: www.hrw.org/modal/100772
Getty image link: www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/police-block-a-road-leading-to-the-city-hall-as-protesters-news-photo/1301914627
The OSINT At Home series is useful for those looking to find digital breadcrumbs and pick up some methods of open source intelligence (OSINT), digital investigations and good old plain research. No matter who you are, or where you are in the world, you can follow these tutorials from home with publicly available information to answer questions such as who, what, where and when.
CREDITS FOR THIS TUTORIAL
All links, images and videos used for tutorial purposes and editorial purposes to analyse ongoing events in the media. Imagery featured on Google Earth is credited to those seen on the screen.
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How I found the home of an ‘FBI Most Wanted' gang lord - Let’s Geolocate #5
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In this session, we look at how geolocation of publicly available footage can be used to piece together points of travel, and to reconstruct a location based on architectural points for identifying a final location on satellite imagery. This detailed guide is perfect for enthusiasts, professionals, and anyone curious about enhancing their geolocation skills, offering step-by-step instructions o...
OSINT At Home #23 - Top Commercial Satellite Imagery Providers
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This tutorial is part 23 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial covers the top providers of commercial satellite imagery and also the third party providers where you can buy other commercial imagery from. Note: I have not received sponsorship from any of these brands for the making of this video, or for their feature. These are brands that I have used in my work and for investigations and an...
Finding Sudan’s Destroyed Towns - An OSINT Case Study
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In this deep-dive tutorial, we look at how freely available satellite imagery and open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques such as geolocation, and the use of geospatial data, can shed light on the ongoing conflict in Sudan since April 2023. The focus of the tutorial is finding Sudan’s destroyed towns and looks at the town of El Geneina, in Sudan’s conflict-stricken Darfur region - this town...
Geolocate an Image Using Shadows - Let’s Geolocate #4
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Learn how to pinpoint exact locations from photographs with this tutorial on image geolocation using shadows. This detailed guide is perfect for enthusiasts, professionals, and anyone curious about enhancing their geolocation skills, offering step-by-step instructions on using shadows to help reveal the precise location where a photo was taken, or simply using the shadows to make that arduous g...
AI-Generated Fakes: How to spot them, how they're made and how they have been used to mislead
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Welcome to this deep dive into the world of AI-generated images - a realm where technology blurs the lines between reality and fabrication. In this video, I unpack a topic in our modern, information-heavy era: the rise of AI-generated fakes and their implications. From stunningly realistic portrayals to the subtle nuances that reveal their artificial origins, we explore the intricate world of A...
OSINT at Home #22: How To Measure Areas Using Free Satellite Tools
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This tutorial is part 22 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial covers the practical use of Google Earth and Sentinel Hub to calculate the size of specific areas using free satellite imagery. The tutorial focusses on guiding you methodically through the usage of these platforms, allowing you to acquire accurate area measurements, a skill crucial for research, investigations, documentation, g...
OSINT at Home #21: Using Google’s ‘Find Image Source’ Tool
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This tutorial is part 21 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial covers a relatively new tool by Google called 'Find Image Source' that allows you to trace back the source of an image uploaded online. The tutorial focusses on using the Find Image Source tool to identify the origin of images, as well as their context, to answer questions about images posted on social media such as “where did i...
OSINT at Home #20: Four Best Image Reverse Search Tools
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This tutorial is part 20 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial covers the subject of image reverse search tools to help researchers with the practicalities and capabilities of various tools designed to delve deeper into the origins, occurrences, and details of images The tutorial focusses on the best image reverse platforms, such as Google Lense, Yandex, Baidu image reverse search, TinEye, ...
OSINT At Home #19 - Top 3 Google Search Hacks for Investigators
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This tutorial is part 19 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial is a guided walkthrough on my three most-commonly used and favourite Google Search hacks, or what are commonly referred to as Google dorks or Google boolean search operators. In this tutorial I use many examples and case studies from Sudan in showing how to use the Google advanced search techniques to provide a practical element...
OSINT At Home #18 - How to track and find planes and flights
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This tutorial is part 18 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial is a simple and easy-to-follow guide on how to track planes and flights using a number of tools, namely how to use FlightRadar24. The tutorial will take you through how to identify where a plane is going based on an image, and how to identify the model and airline of a plane seen on Google Maps or Google Earth. This tutorial als...
OSINT At Home #17 - How to map seismic data and earthquakes
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OSINT At Home #17 - How to map seismic data and earthquakes
OSINT At Home #16 - My top five tools in Google Earth Pro
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OSINT At Home #16 - My top five tools in Google Earth Pro
Finding WW2 aerial imagery on Google Earth - Let’s Geolocate #3
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Finding WW2 aerial imagery on Google Earth - Let’s Geolocate #3
Finding Top Gun’s final mission and flying it in Google Earth - Lets Geolocate #2
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Finding Top Gun’s final mission and flying it in Google Earth - Lets Geolocate #2
Eyes on Russia - Mapping Russia’s War on Ukraine #russiaukrainewar
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Eyes on Russia - Mapping Russia’s War on Ukraine #russiaukrainewar
Finding Big Art Pieces From Above - Let's Geolocate #1
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Finding Big Art Pieces From Above - Let's Geolocate #1
Digital Sleuthing: Introducing OSINT tutorials for the web generation
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Digital Sleuthing: Introducing OSINT tutorials for the web generation
OSINT At Home #15 - 3 Simple Steps to Pull, Sort and Map Data
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OSINT At Home #15 - 3 Simple Steps to Pull, Sort and Map Data
OSINT At Home #14 - How to find fires from space
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OSINT At Home #14 - How to find fires from space
OSINT At Home #13 - Using mountains to geolocate a photo or video
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OSINT At Home #13 - Using mountains to geolocate a photo or video
OSINT At Home #12 - How to pull text from an image and use it in search
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OSINT At Home #12 - How to pull text from an image and use it in search
OSINT At Home #11 - Six street view applications to explore the world
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OSINT At Home #11 - Six street view applications to explore the world
OSINT At Home #10- How to map anything with freely available location data
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OSINT At Home #10- How to map anything with freely available location data
OSINT At Home #9 - Top 4 Free Satellite Imagery Sources
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OSINT At Home #9 - Top 4 Free Satellite Imagery Sources
FINDING: MODI - Find where & when a photo was taken (geolocation & chronolocation)
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FINDING: MODI - Find where & when a photo was taken (geolocation & chronolocation)
Myanmar protests seen from space on Google Earth Pro
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Myanmar protests seen from space on Google Earth Pro
OSINT At Home #8 - Calculate time using shadows in a photo or video
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OSINT At Home #8 - Calculate time using shadows in a photo or video
OSINT At Home #7 - How to create a satellite image time lapse
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OSINT At Home #7 - How to create a satellite image time lapse
OSINT At Home #6 - Find when an image was taken with satellite imagery
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OSINT At Home #6 - Find when an image was taken with satellite imagery
so nice video. thanks
Thank you! 🙏
Awesome videos 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks a lot 😆
What can i use to find minerals
Love the new shadowtool developed by Bellingcat
Great video. We need more of this stuff ;)
Working on it!
Your Majesty... Welcome back. So right after the 4 Questions - isolate the monument and locate it, time of day can be seen by the shadows, see if on that place were any sort of demonstrations and figure out what is going on - all this from your previous videos (and no google help) so I will partially repeat my last comment on your last video. This series is my main go-to OSINT playlist and I widen my scope only if I cannot find something using your techniques.They were short videos after all, understandably, it is hard to squeeze your entire life/work into 10-15 parts 10-15 min videos. Thx for adding to the list. The amount of research that goes into learning these techniques must be enormous. Yet you give it to us for free. All the best and cheers
Thank you, that is such a nice comment. I really appreciate it 🫡
Kudos Be regular please
I’m trying. Doing this and a day job is a tricky game!
I'm enjoying these, and I have practiced some of the techniques. It's a lot of fun.
Glad you like them!
Great video as always!
Thank you so much!
Myanmar or Malaysia maybe?
This is where RAINBOLT probably learns his skills from.
Yup. Ben is awesome!
@@georainbolt 😍😅 Thanks man! That means a lot. You're an absolute legend at geolocation!
Gotta say that the upbeat tone during the 'village dissapears' part felt eerie.
For Apple Maps, there's a developer who reverse engineered their API and put it on a website.
This only works if the image has been posted online, otherwise you'll have to use clues from the image to guess the location.
Yow man u know this man is wanted and u are showing is location,stop snitching
You're doing good work, with the added bonus that it's entertaining, helpful, and even satisfying.
Glad you enjoy it!
Terrific!
Thanks for your clear descriptions. Please add the link to your 4 sugestions.
Thank you, they are already in the description 🫡
❤🎉
😨😨😨😨😨
What about mp3 files?
Thanks to the Clinton foundation
Very interesting - great work !
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks
Welcome
Thanks, very useful
Glad it was helpful!
Should have been call rainbolt but cool vids.
I'm a biomedical engineer,fell in love with OSNIT by watching and practicing your video for a year now , can you provide me with some career opportunities with OSNIT
Snitching always works out 😂😂
Someone is not gona be happy about this video…….😮
how to geolocate a picture based on its shadows. first step, search on google for the picture and find a news article about the exact place where it was taken, then go to google earth and type that place in it, then proceed to scour the area for anything that resembles the landfeatures in the picture. and suncalc? a yeah right, shadow almost vertical, no idea if north, south, east or west. Kinda silly video dude
great content , thanks a lot
You are welcome!
Thanks for being so didactic!
That one building must be an anomaly haha
High quality osint
I actually live in Haiti, I know a guy who has seen Vitel Homme. I probably could have just asked my friend where he lived. Nice work though.
It's clear that it doesn't seem like a big secret. He invites journalists to his home, lets them film, and lives with a small army in a huge house. He doesn't seem like someone who hides much
@@unk884 For sure. When I told my friend who has seen him before about the reward, he said something about Vitel Homme not hiding from anyone and that if the FBI really wanted him they could easily get him.
quality content thank you
Thank you 🙏
Damn bro, you're not only super intelligent but also super handsome🫡
Brother Please Be Safe
Truly a pleasure as always. I still have your entire playlist downloaded as intro to osint geolocation bible. In rare moments I need reminding - I peek into... how the pro does it... Cheers and great job.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Guys like this should be easy to "deal" with. For some reason our states are turning a blind eye. Who does this profit to ?
Haiti is not America bro. They can't just walk in and grab him
Nice work. Always impressive results and a great presentation bringing us through the process.
Thank you for the support! Really appreciate it!
Ben - I really could use your help with a case I'm working on. Please reply to this so I know where to contact you. I've tried a number of different places without success. Thx
@@Terry-xr4fv hijacking the top comment is savage tho...
@@Terry-xr4fv hey, you can find my email on the about page. I don’t share it without captcha due to scrapers and email campaigns.
@@Bendobrown I sent you an email about a month ago. I just sent you another one. Thx
5:01 debris on roadside on righr before left turn seems to match positioning of cylindrical debris in video out passenger window
Hi .. am a fisherman and i cant see the coast shore waters clearly cause they lock it ...can you help me to find a way to see the shore reefs and structure 😢
Tried suncalc at my location, it was like 30-40% off for total daylight time... it said I should have 12 hours, actually have 16.
These are awesome resources! Thanks for this video!
Glad you like them!
@14:30 Myanmar photo, YOU CAN SEE a river! It's the green s shape at the top of the picture. A green line like that tells you there is water.
I am an huge fan man. Please can you guive us some tips about how to masterisy this skill like you did in your videos.
You can watch my ‘let’s geolocate tutorials’ and my other osint at home videos to practice these steps. I also regularly post these things on Twitter/X at Bendobrown, and I always cite the source so you can try to follow along with the geolocations/verifications
@@Bendobrown Amazing man can you share with us your other social medias please.
@@Bendobrown We are living dangerous times we need more peoples like you. Your content needs to be suported.
wow
What if there is no meta data available for the image ?
That we have have the manual geo/chrono skills in these tutorials for 😆
Hey! Late to the party IK but how would you suggest we practice these skills?
You can watch my ‘let’s geolocate tutorials’ and my other osint at home videos to practice these steps. I also regularly post these things on Twitter/X at Bendobrown, and I always cite the source so you can try to follow along with the geolocations/verifications
ill come back later this is too much math right now.