🛰️ Strategic Intelligence Gateway: User Cheatsheet

The Strategic Intelligence Gateway provides real-time global monitoring by analyzing millions of news reports in over 100 languages. Use this guide to maximize your extraction accuracy.

🛡️ Core Capability

Speed: Updates every 15 minutes.
Scope: Monitors global online news, including local non-Western media.
Verification: Use the Safety Portal links in the sidebar for verified human-coded data (ACLED/GDACS).

🔍 Advanced Search Operators

Refine your drilldown with these logic-based operators: - Exact Phrases: "vessel hijacked" (finds that specific wording). - Boolean OR: (Gaza OR Lebanon) airstrike (finds results for either location). - Exclusion: piracy -movie -book (removes noise from entertainment or literature). - Proximity: near10:"tank border" (finds words within 10 positions of each other). - Source Filter: domain:reuters.com (limits extraction to a trusted outlet).

🌐 Multilingual Intelligence

Native Search: You can enter queries in French, Russian, Chinese, or Arabic.
Translingual Bridge: GDELT automatically translates news into English. If a search in a local language returns "Sparse Signals," try the English equivalent to tap into the full translated global archive.

🛰️ UI Status Indicators

🟢 Green Dot: Extraction successful; live signals detected.
🟡 Yellow Dot: Tactical processing active (fetching from GDELT API).
🔵 Blue Dot: Multilingual extraction active (non-English characters detected).
🟠 Orange Dot: Sparse signals detected. Re-evaluate keywords.
🔴 Red Dot: No matches found or API connection error.

💡 Pro-Tips for Analysts

The 48h Window: The gateway defaults to a 48-hour "Operational" window to ensure data is fresh and actionable.
Context Popups: Click any indicator on the map to see the specific article snippet and original source link.
Slow Connections: A tactical spinner appears during extraction to confirm the system is actively communicating with the GDELT servers.