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308 Revista del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos Núm. 1/ 2013 2. Compilation. The aim is to obtain data by very diverse means, from different information sources, which will constitute the informative base on which the new knowledge will be generated. • Selection of cartographic services: Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap and Google Earth. • Open sources (OSINT). A possible –not complete- classification of the open sources that may be used is the following: - Professional and academic: theses, papers, conferences, expert work, documents from think tanks, as well as periodic publications and scientific magazines. - Public and private databases: SIPRI, OECD, The CIA World Factbook, Global Peace Index, Transparency.org and TI-Defence. - Mass media: newspapers, television, radio and other audio-visual media. - Legislation. Official documents: reports, balance sheets, statistics, strategies, communiques, official bulletins, contracts. - Human sourcess (HUMINT). As regards to human sources, we have had the assistance of supervisors of psychological operations, information from satellites and the protection of critical infrastructures. In order to handle the documents in a suitable way, we have used the Topomapper7 online tool that makes it possible to view the images that show the different services in a dual manner, assisting the task of comparing these and making it possible to simultaneously browse through the different services. 3. Processing. The phase of the intellectual processing and use of the information is then initiated. • The Heuer and Pherson checklist has been used in order to detect deception and a methodology (OPAC) has been formulated in order to evaluate the quality of the images supplied, as a preliminary step for measuring the reliability of the cartographic services and the credibility of the contents provided by them. • Passing on of the results to the international source evaluation system. The reliability of the sources and the credibility of the content have been measured, depending on the international source evaluation system. • Analysis. The pertinent relations and inferences will be established in order to create an indicator that makes it possible to estimate the degree of exposure. Once the OPAC checklist has been defined, the data are shown in 7  http://www.topomapper.com


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