This tutorial is part 5 of the OSINT At Home series. It covers how to create a panorama of scenes in a video for geolocation – this specific technique is useful for those interested in imagery analysis.

A note on creating this panorama. I am currently using a MacBook, so my process has been to make screenshots of the video in a mac using COMMAND + SHIFT + 4. The panorama I made was created in preview (standard on all Mac computers). There are a number of other platforms you can use for both Windows and Mac, such as GIMP.

For geolocation, a panorama is not always necessary, however it is useful in more difficult geolocation tasks where there are limited ‘obvious’ features in the footage.

While I do cover a portion of geolocation in this tutorial, video 4 covers how to find the location of an image or video in its entirety, with a focus on geolocation methodology. You can find that video here:    • OSINT At Home #4 – Identify a locatio...  .

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.

TOOLS MENTIONED
GOOGLE MAPS: https://maps.google.com/
GOOGLE EARTH PRO: https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/ear...
PANORAMA: Screenshot + Preview (on MAC)
PHOTO EDITOR MENTIONED: https://www.gimp.org/
PANORAMA SOFTWARE MENTIONED: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

MORE RESOURCES
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CREDITS FOR THIS TUTORIAL
MUSIC INTRO: World’s Fair – God Mode
MUSIC END: Dhaka by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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FOOTAGE FROM SYRIA:    • Syria, Syrian Army Colonel Suheil "Th...