We Are Better Together
Our Commercial Innovation Center (CIC) is a first-of-its-kind, online development and test platform that provides a secure, virtual, open ecosystem and test sandbox for developers and researchers. We do it by harnessing the combined powers of commercial remote sensing, unclassified open datasets, cloud technologies, in a secure development ecosystem fueled by new, emerging, and seasoned tools, services and data to create solutions that keep our nation safe. The Riverside Research CIC is the place where commercial subject matter experts come together securely to collaborate and create the best commercial solutions to real world scenarios before they're integrated and deployed in the field.
Together, we win
It’s not as much fun to play in the sandbox by yourself, right? We know from experience that it’s the collective work of many people with diverse experiences and backgrounds that create the most effective solutions. By design, the CIC encourages partnerships, increases data accessibility, integrates app development, and facilitates the creation of transition-ready prototypes. Because of our unique position as a nonprofit in the defense space, we can provide the neutral environment where collaborative innovation thrives. As demonstrated on this video, capitalizing on all commercial sensors available improves our progress towards persistent observation.
Access to rich datasets
Data is the one thing that is guaranteed to continuously grow and change. Technology entrepreneurs’ success revolves around access to these data and developing improved AI and machine learning tools creating integrated and advanced applications for businesses in support of (United States Government) USG needs.
Advanced tools and applications
Technology innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and augmented and virtual reality present significant entrepreneurial opportunities, yet all require geospatial data for development. Early-stage entrepreneurs, academic researchers, and innovators will now have access to the large datasets that are traditionally only available to large, established industry players. Such datasets are often too costly for early-stage entrepreneurs and researchers to acquire, and even if the datasets are made available, they are often not packaged in a manner that allows innovators to work with the data—they are overwhelmingly unwieldy and non-standardized. The CIC data environment seeks to solve that problem, allowing researchers and entrepreneurs new opportunities for experimentation, testing, and training.
The CIC pairs this data with tools and services to streamline development timelines by ensuring flexible licenses are available for your R&D activities within the CIC ecosystem. As new tools and services become available, we negotiate with the vendors for early and shared access amongst our CIC participants to the latest and greatest capabilities from established vendors in the remote sensing market. This visual shows a few or our early integrators, and as new vendors are integrated, we’ll let the community know!
Your all-access pass
The CIC supports and enables industry, scientific, academic, and governmental R&D activities by facilitating access to commercial remote sensing data. Riverside Research integrates the hardware, software, processes, data, tools, internet accesses, demonstration capabilities, and other IT infrastructure required to execute CIC participant SIBR projects and meet R&D objectives. Our CIC offers:
- Exposure to diverse and emerging data and data types for more data scientists
- Increased interaction between content providers and new application developers; enables cloud-hybrid, multi-INT applications
- Lowered entry barriers by eliminating the need for a user-developed system
- Integrated orchestration-to-analysis workflow
- Timely teaming, technology, and tipping
- Accelerated access and use of commercial remote sensing solutions and innovation
Right where you want it
Are you looking for a cloud-hosting environment where you can easily access commercial data for development and test—all from one place to safely develop, load, and test capabilities?
Our trusted, unclassified, virtual development platform provides access to R&D-licensed commercial remote sensing phenomenologies (e.g., EO, radar, IR, RF), connects emerging and established vendors with shared application tools and services, and facilitates GEOINT, MASINT, and Multi-INT research and development. The CIC includes:
- An ecosystem of commercial data providers (CDPs)
- A network of application developers
- Common R&D data and COTS/GOTS tools (e.g., loading, discovery)
- Common testing data (curated, tagged)
- Robust DevOps environment
- Hybrid cloud-ready infrastructure
- Protected intellectual property and data rights
- Maturing secure data fabric
CIC mission, vision & values
Mission: Provide data scientists and algorithm developers with a virtual development and test platform and access to new and diverse commercial remote sensing data to develop algorithms, tools, and services.
Vision: Work in the Nation’s interest to offer proven expertise and experience in commercial remote sensing to solve problems through innovation, agility, and creative thinking.
Values: Encourage partnerships and connect emerging and established users across USG and industry with shared application tools, services, and diverse commercial constellation data.
Participant Agreements: We offer access to a secure, virtual, cloud-based ecosystem to perform R&D using existing and emerging commercial sources to develop and test algorithms, tools, and services accelerating USG objectives.
Commercial Experts: We offer our commercial experience, data scientists, and phenomenology experts to support efforts using the CIC to perform commercial utility assessments, new sensor development, synthetic data V&V, data value/usability studies, and more.
Products and Services: We offer access to CIC-based products and services such as synthetic data generation, data tagging, AI/ML V&V, data compression, data geo-registration, and more.
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Commercial Imagery
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NASA Satellite Data Could Soon Lead to Safer Bridges Worldwide
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Kelda Roys on the 2026 primary for governor of Wisconsin
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Prithvi-EO: An Open-Access Geospatial Foundation Model Advancing Earth Science ...
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Operators Pivot to Managed Solutions as Ground Segment Complexity Grows per Novaspace Report
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This incredible map shows the world's 2.75 billion buildings - Fast Company
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Select Committee Identifies Direct Chinese Links with Seized Tanker
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Satlyt Partners with Parsimoni to Explore Interoperability for In-Orbit Computing
... Geospatial Intelligence Solutions ... satellite payloads, to explore technical and commercial interoperability between their core technologies.
GMV Wins ESA Contract to Develop C-Band Navigation Antenna and Receiver System
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The U.S. Seizes an Oil Tanker. What's Next? - The New York Times
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'They're no longer hiding': How Russia is shipping liquefied natural gas to China despite sanctions
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Study: Current, future megaconstellations risk space-based astronomy - Spaceflight Now
... satellite trail contamination. The satellite trails represent the ... Image: SpaceX. The paper argues though that even some techniques ...
Eckerd College marine science professor helps track shifting seaweed that could alter ...
... satellite imagery with decades of field observations to investigate this complex ocean phenomenon. ... Occurring since 2011 in satellite data ...
How Dark-Fleet Ships Use A Digital Trick to Disappear—And How to Find Them
But satellite imagery told a different tale—the ship was actually near Venezuela. “Basically, we have the images to know that it was not where it ...
Ancient Death Valley Lake Reappears | NASA Earthdata
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P-8 Poseidon - Boeing
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Satellite Launches
SpaceX Alleges a Chinese-Deployed Satellite Risked Colliding With Starlink
... Images). A SpaceX executive says a satellite deployed from a Chinese ... launch provider CAS Space. “When satellite operators do not share ...
Spacecraft from Chinese launch nearly slammed into Starlink satellite, SpaceX says | Space
... launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast (video). Latest in Satellites. Satellite trails seen in Hubble Space Telescope images ...
Week in images: 08-12 December 2025 - ESA
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Orbital traffic: the explosion of satellites puts space telescopes in crisis - Evidence Network
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OTD In Space - December 12: Pioneer 8 Launches On Mission To Study The Sun - video Dailymotion
... satellites that NASA launched to observe things like the solar wind, the sun's magnetic fields and cosmic rays, or high-energy particles from ...
Amazon's Quiet $10B Bet on Satellite Internet — and Why It Could Power Amazon Stock Higher
... launch and satellite costs to come down. We are nearing that point,” Will Marshall, co-founder of satellite imaging company Planet Labs, told the ...
K2 Space Raises $250M Series C
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L3Harris Technologies Completes Critical Design Review For JMA's Himawari-10 Instruments
L3Harris Technologies has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the imaging and sounding instruments for the Japan Meteorological Agency's ...
Satellite constellations could obscure most space telescope observations by late 2030s - Yahoo
"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are launched?"
Kidlington waste mountain estimated to weigh 10,000 tonnes - BBC
Satellite imagery shows activity and a change in the landscape within a few weeks, with lorries seen at the site. EA visits. 2 July 2025. Following ...
SpaceX launches 1st of 5 missions on tap in next 8 days on Florida's Space Coast
... satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. ... images. 1 hour ago. Unique bond identified as key to viral ...
NASA Satellite Images Could Soon Lead to Safer Bridges Worldwide
The researchers hope to soon begin using data from the recently-launched NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, jointly operated by ...
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Paramount in recent days launched a hostile takeover bid to acquire ... Satellite images suggest seized tanker manipulated its location data.
US Space Force is installing a 'next level' system to combat drones near Cape Canaveral ...
... satellite into orbit launches from LC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ... images taken between 2002 and 2021. Satellite constellations could ...
P-8 Poseidon - Boeing
Satellites Resilient satellites and services powering global missions More · Space Launch System Proven deep-space, heavy-lift rocket for Artemis ...
Satellite firm, NGO team up to boost blue carbon monitoring in Indonesia
A European satellite analytics company this week partnered with a conservation group in Indonesia to deploy “hyperspectral imaging” and AI to track ...
Study: Current, future megaconstellations risk space-based astronomy - Spaceflight Now
... images will increase very soon.” This assessment comes as SpaceX recently launched its 3,000th Starlink satellite ... satellites in 2026 using its ...
South Africa eases ownership rules, opening door for Starlink and other foreign operators
Starlink satellites launch from Cape Canaveral. The SpaceX Falcon 9 ... New Epstein images released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
The race for AI centres in space: why the US goes all in after China makes first move
In May, Guoxing Aerospace launched a cluster of 12 satellites in ... Processing remote sensing imagery of Pazhou district in Guangzhou, the ...
Geospatial constellation operator Satellogic: $90M stock offering provides enough cash for ...
LA PLATA, Maryland — Satellite geospatial imaging constellation operator Satellogic Inc. ... satellite, launch and the international space businesses.
EO-MSI
Ancient Death Valley Lake Reappears | NASA Earthdata
Freshly burned areas appear red. Visit Worldview to visualize near real-time imagery and historical imagery from NASA's Earth Science Data and ...
BlackSky Technology Enters $100M Sales Agreement - TipRanks.com
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Intuitive Machines and Telespazio to collaborate on lunar satellite networks - SpaceNews
The company said in November it may turn to Lanteris Space Systems, the former Maxar Space Systems satellite manufacturer that Intuitive plans to ...
Geospatial constellation operator Satellogic: $90M stock offering provides enough cash for ...
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'Since the end of the quarter, we have successfully launched another 2 Pelican satellites as well as 36 Super Doves and announced an R&D initiative ...
This incredible map shows the world's 2.75 billion buildings - Fast Company
The team started with daily satellite images from the PlanetScope constellation, which photographs the Earth at roughly 9.8 feet per pixel. Then ...
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... satellite communications for defense . ... The IP NEO terminals are Comms-on-the-Pause terminals that fit into a backpack; the IP NEO ...
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SAR
BAE Systems Awarded 16 Million Dollars to Develop Autonomous Space-Based Surveillance
... satellite constellations. The contract follows Phase 1, during which ... SSC och ICEYE tecknar ...
Satlyt Partners with Parsimoni to Explore Interoperability for In-Orbit Computing
Imagery and Sensing Umbra and ... satellite payloads, to explore technical and commercial interoperability between their core technologies.
GMV Wins ESA Contract to Develop C-Band Navigation Antenna and Receiver System
Connectivity Iridium to Provide Satellite IoT to ... Imagery and Sensing Umbra and Italy's E-GEOS to Co-Develop Geospatial Intelligence Solutions.
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... Iceye holds a 40% stake. The initial plan is to produce satellites ... satellite productionSPOCK satellite systemtank productionUVision. MOST ...
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ICEYE and Esri Australia (through Boustead Geospatial) partner to deliver unprecedented ...
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BAE Systems Awarded 16 Million Dollars to Develop Autonomous Space-Based Surveillance
... satellite constellations. The contract follows Phase 1, during which ... I ICEYE:s pressmeddelande framgår att avsiktsförklaringen placerar ...
Umbra and Italy's E-GEOS to Co-Develop Geospatial Intelligence Solutions
... Umbra's constellation. Both entities operate synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellations. e-GEOS is the exclusive licensee of data for ...
Iceye inks deal to expand market access to natural catastrophe risk intelligence
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e-GEOS & Umbra Partner to Develop Advanced SAR-Based Geospatial Intelligence Solutions
... Umbra's agile SAR constellation and imagery. In doing so, Umbra and e-GEOS will deliver unprecedented global coverage, giving users faster, more ...
Keysight Technologies, KT-SAT Demonstrate NR-NTN Multi-Orbit Handover Using ... - Via Satellite
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Nordic Semiconductor Brings New Direct-to-Satellite IoT Software Kit to Market
Nordic Semiconductor has launched a new software and development kit with satellite at the heart of it ... Imagery and Sensing Umbra and Italy's E-GEOS ...
HSI
How Agriculture is Propelling the Growth of India's Spacetech Start-ups - Outlook Business
India's agriculture is undergoing a data-driven revolution powered by satellites. From the $145M Pixxel-led EO constellation to AI-powered crop ...
Details about Pixxel's upcoming Honeybee Constellation (470–2500 nm with 5m Resolution) - Reddit
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RF
Cubesat Market Expected to Reach $1.1 Billion by 2029, According - NORTHEAST
... satellite applications. As the demand for compact, efficient, and cost ... For example, in August 2023, Spire Global Inc., a US-based space ...
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• Spire Global • PlanetScope • and DigitalGlobe. ➤ Forest Environment Satellite Remote Sensing Monitoring Market: Segmental Highlights By Types ...
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Delivering AI-driven, satellite-powered renewable generation insights for the Texas grid. Spire Global, Inc., a leading global provider of ...
Satellite images suggest seized tanker 'deliberately' manipulated location data
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