OSINT Education Spotlight: OSINT Collection Methodologies

11/20/2025

Collection is one part of the overall Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) process within the OSINT discipline. Data, once collected, nearly always requires some degree of processing and exploitation, to include translation, formatting, or data engineering, to place it into a useful format for analysis.

The order of the following methodologies follows the previously articulated Mediums of PAI order and should not be construed as being listed in order of priority or prevalence.

See the OSINT Collection Methodologies Document for more details here: https://lnkd.in/efURxev9