Intelligence Classification System

Every event. Instantly understood.

Krataxis applies a structured, five-dimension classification code to every intelligence event the moment it enters the platform — automatically, consistently, and without analyst intervention. The result is a common operating picture where any team member, at any level, can assess the nature, severity, and operational relevance of an event at a glance.

01 — Symbology

The Five-Dimension Event Symbology Code

Every confirmed event and intelligence item in Krataxis is assigned a compact five-character code that encodes the most operationally significant dimensions of the event in a single, scannable identifier. Inspired by established military symbology standards, the Krataxis code is purpose-built for the speed and ambiguity of modern open-source intelligence — where events are contested, actors are opaque, and clarity is a competitive advantage.

Code Structure

P1

Actor

Who carried out or is responsible for the event

P2

Event

The nature of the kinetic or non-kinetic action

P3

Domain

The operational domain — air, maritime, or ground

P4

Target

The category of asset or structure involved

P5

Status

Outcome or current state of the event

P01

Actor

The Actor dimension identifies which state, coalition, or non-state entity is assessed to be responsible for — or a primary participant in — the event. Krataxis maintains a continuously refined actor registry for every Battlespace, meaning the classification system draws on accumulated pattern-of-life data and historical behaviour, not a generic static list. When actor attribution is ambiguous or contested, the code reflects that uncertainty explicitly rather than assigning a false confidence.

State Actor A Confirmed government or military force — Side A
State Actor B Confirmed government or military force — Side B
Non-State Actor Non-governmental armed group, militia, or faction
Unknown Insufficient attribution data — flagged for analyst review
P02

Event Type

The Event dimension classifies the primary type of kinetic or non-kinetic action that occurred. This classification drives the icon rendered on the Battlespace map, ensuring that strike events, explosive incidents, and direct engagements are visually distinguished at scale — critical when an analyst is scanning hundreds of simultaneous events across a wide area of operations. The classification is derived from multi-layer semantic analysis of the full event record, not a single keyword match.

Strike Kinetic strike — air-delivered, missile, or artillery
Explosive Event Blast, detonation, interception remnant, or similar
Direct Engagement Ground-force clash, firefight, or direct confrontation
Static / POI No kinetic action — point of interest or unit record
P03

Domain

The Domain dimension identifies the primary operational environment in which the event took place or the primary asset class involved. Domain classification is essential for multi-domain situational awareness — decision-makers and planners working across air, maritime, and ground operations need to filter and route intelligence quickly, and a domain-coded event record eliminates the need to read the full item description before making that determination.

Air Aviation assets, airspace events, aerial platforms
Maritime Naval vessels, port infrastructure, or seaborne operations
Ground Terrestrial forces, armoured assets, fixed land installations
Unresolved Domain cannot be determined from available intelligence
P04

Target

The Target dimension specifies the category of the physical asset, installation, or type of structure that was the subject of the event. This dimension is particularly valuable for infrastructure threat analysis, force protection assessments, and pattern-of-life tracking — enabling teams to monitor whether a particular asset class is being systematically targeted across a theatre, and to identify shifts in adversary targeting priorities before they become strategically significant.

Military Structure Military installation, base, command post, or hardened site
Infrastructure Civil or industrial infrastructure — energy, transport, logistics
Vehicle / Platform Mobile asset — armoured vehicle, naval vessel, aircraft
Residential / Civil Residential area or non-military civil structure
P05

Status

The Status dimension records the assessed current state of the event or target — the outcome that matters to the decision-maker. A confirmed destruction is operationally different from a reported strike with unresolved damage, and the Krataxis code makes that distinction explicit and searchable. Status coding also drives the platform's source reliability weighting: events with well-documented outcomes from high-credibility sources receive stronger confirmation weightings than unverified initial reports.

Destroyed Asset or structure confirmed destroyed or neutralised
Damaged / Unconfirmed Damage reported — outcome not yet independently verified
Active Ongoing or developing situation
Unknown Status cannot be assessed from current intelligence

02 — Source Confidence

NATO-Aligned Source Reliability Rating

Before a classification code is generated, every intelligence item undergoes automated source evaluation. Krataxis assesses the provenance of each event against a tiered credibility framework aligned with NATO admiralty rating conventions — producing a two-character reliability indicator that travels with the event record throughout its lifecycle in the platform.

This matters because the intelligence value of a confirmed satellite observation is not the same as an unverified social media post — even if both describe the same event. The Krataxis confidence score makes that distinction immediately visible, so analysts can prioritise high-confidence items and appropriately caveat lower-confidence assessments in their reporting without manually evaluating each source.

As analysts confirm and refute events over time, source reliability ratings are continuously refined — creating a compounding institutional memory that makes the platform more accurate and discriminating the longer it is in operation.

Confidence Tiers

B/2

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High Confidence

C/3

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Medium Confidence

E/4

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Low Confidence

The confidence rating is displayed alongside the classification code on every event record, every map icon tooltip, and every analyst report — ensuring that source quality context is never separated from the intelligence itself.

03 — Semantic Categorisation

Deep Semantic Event Categorisation

Generating a classification code is not a simple keyword lookup. Krataxis subjects every incoming event record to a multi-layer semantic analysis pipeline that evaluates the full intelligence text against a comprehensive library of operationally significant categories — covering the complete spectrum of conflict activity, from kinetic strikes and drone engagements to infrastructure targeting and force disposition.

Conflict Event Categories

Kinetic Strike

Air-delivered munitions, missiles, and artillery fire events

Drone & UAS Attack

FPV, loitering munitions, and unmanned aerial system engagements

Aftermath & Damage

Post-strike damage assessment — structural collapse, scarring, craters

Fire & Secondary Effects

Fires, smoke, and secondary explosions following a strike or engagement

Interception & Debris

Interceptor engagements, downed assets, and debris field events

Ground Engagement

Direct fire clashes, troop contact, and small-arms engagements

Points of Interest & Asset Categories

Military Installation

Bases, command posts, garrisons, training facilities, and headquarters

Underground & Hardened Storage

Bunkers, weapons caches, tunnel networks, and hardened missile sites

Naval Asset

Warships, submarines, auxiliary vessels, ports, and naval aviation facilities

Aviation Asset

Airbases, aircraft, hangars, runways, and air defence platforms

Armoured & Heavy Ground Asset

Main battle tanks, APCs, IFVs, and engineering vehicles

Air Defence & Radar

SAM systems, early warning radar, anti-aircraft batteries, and radomes

Civil & Industrial Infrastructure

Refineries, power stations, logistics nodes, bridges, and transport corridors

Multi-category resolution. A single event can and frequently does trigger multiple categories simultaneously — a strike on a naval base, for example, is both a kinetic event and a military installation point of interest. Krataxis resolves the full set of matched categories before deriving the final symbology code, ensuring that multi-dimensional events are correctly represented rather than arbitrarily collapsed to a single dimension.

04 — Map Iconography

Classification-Driven Map Icons

The classification code is not just a database attribute — it is the direct input to the Krataxis map icon renderer. Every dimension of the code maps to a corresponding visual property of the icon displayed on the 3D Battlespace globe, so that the full intelligence picture encoded in the five-character code is immediately readable from the map without opening a single detail panel.

When a Battlespace contains hundreds or thousands of events — a scale that is routine in active conflict monitoring — the ability to discriminate at a glance between a confirmed airstrike on critical infrastructure and an unverified ground engagement at a minor checkpoint is not a quality-of-life convenience. It is an operational necessity.

The icon system is consistently applied across every data source that feeds the Battlespace, regardless of origin — ensuring that an analyst working across a diverse intelligence picture sees a single, coherent visual language rather than a patchwork of incompatible symbol sets from different source formats.

Icon Visual Properties

Icon Shape

Encodes the primary event type — distinct geometry per action class

Icon Colour

Encodes actor attribution — immediate force identification at map scale

Fill Pattern

Encodes status — solid for confirmed, hatched or faded for unverified

Size

Scales with assessed severity — higher-severity events are more prominent

Pulse / Glow

Active or developing events animate to draw analyst attention

Cluster Label

At zoomed-out scales, events group with a count badge — colour reflects the highest-severity event in the cluster

05 — Operational Value

What standardised classification delivers operationally.

Structured classification is not an analytical luxury. For organisations managing live intelligence across contested environments — whether in defence, government, critical infrastructure protection, or crisis response — standardised, machine-generated classification is the foundation that makes scale possible.

Immediate Situational Awareness

Analysts joining a Battlespace mid-operation do not need to read through raw reports to understand what has happened. The classification and icon system delivers a complete operational picture at first glance — reducing onboarding time from hours to minutes.

Consistent Cross-Team Interpretation

When every event carries the same structured classification regardless of source or analyst, different teams — tactical, strategic, legal, communications — work from a shared understanding. There is no ambiguity about whether two teams are interpreting the same event the same way.

Scalable Filtering and Prioritisation

Classification codes are fully filterable. A team focused exclusively on air domain threats, or on events affecting civil infrastructure, or on events attributed to a specific actor, can isolate exactly that subset of the intelligence picture in seconds — without manual tagging or analyst annotation.

Defensible Reporting

Every classification decision is traceable to the underlying confidence scoring and semantic analysis that generated it. When analysts produce reports or assessments based on Krataxis-classified events, the evidentiary chain — from raw intelligence to classification to conclusion — is preserved and auditable.

Pattern and Trend Detection

Consistent classification across time enables pattern analysis that would be impossible with inconsistently tagged data. Increases in a particular event category, shifts in domain or target type, changes in actor attribution rates — these signals emerge clearly when the underlying data is structured and uniformly coded.

Reduced Cognitive Load at Sustained Tempo

During high-tempo operations, analyst cognitive load is a genuine operational risk. Classification that is automatic, consistent, and visually encoded reduces the number of decisions an analyst needs to make per event — preserving capacity for the higher-order judgements that only a trained human can make.

Worked Example

From raw intelligence to classified event — in seconds.

The following illustrates how Krataxis processes a single incoming intelligence item through the full classification pipeline automatically, without any analyst intervention.

Raw Input

Confirmed strike on the Havadarya Naval Aviation Headquarters. Satellite imagery confirms significant damage to the primary aircraft hangar complex. Secondary fires visible. State actor responsible. Source: satellite imagery platform.

Classification Output

Step Dimension Reasoning Result
1 Confidence Source is a satellite imagery platform B/2 — High
2 Actor "State actor" — attributed to a government force State Actor A
3 Event "Confirmed strike" triggers kinetic strike category Strike (S)
4 Domain "Naval Aviation" — aviation asset present Air (A)
5 Target "Headquarters / hangar" — military installation Military Structure (S)
6 Status "Significant damage confirmed" — not full destruction Damaged (U)
A-SAS-U Final symbology code — rendered immediately as a classified map icon

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