This tutorial is part 6 of the OSINT At Home series. It covers how to find when a photo or video was taken using features seen in the image and cross-referencing them with freely available satellite imagery (also referred to as chronolocation).

It should be noted that there are many different ways to identify when an image or video may have been taken. This tutorial covers the more difficult aspect of that by identifying a window of time when the image or video was taken. There are also methods such as looking at the metadata or exifdata (seen in video 2), looking at the terrain (winter, summer, dry, rainy season), as well as more advanced techniques such as using shadows in an image or video to identify the time (shadow calculation).

This tutorial is complimentary to videos 4 and 5 in this series which cover how to find the location of an image or a video (geolocation methodology) and also how to create a panorama to help with more difficult geolocation challenges.
You can find those videos here:    • OSINT At Home #4 – Identify a locatio...  , and here:    • OSINT At Home #5 – Creating a panoram...  

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...
SENTINEL HUB: https://www.sentinel-hub.com/explore/...

MORE RESOURCES
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/...
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/...
https://nixintel.info/osint/chronoloc...

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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/...
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
FOOTAGE: Therry_FX/Shutterstock.com/ Alexander Steam/Shutterstock.com
FOOTAGE FROM SYRIA:    • Syria, Syrian Army Colonel Suheil "Th...  
FOOTAGE FROM MYANMAR: Myanmar Army via AP: https://apnews.com/article/c8f628c535...