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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Quick Take: North Korea's Newest Warships Unlikely to Have Sailed
Korean Central Television's nearly hour-long report on the new ship never showed it away from the dock. Commercial satellite imagery showed the ship ...
We now know just how much climate change supercharged Hurricane Katrina
... satellite image shows Hurricane Katrina swirling over the Gulf Coast NOAA via Getty Images. Matt Simon Senior Staff Writer. Published: Aug 28, 2025.
France, Germany and U.K. trigger U.N. sanctions against Iran over nuclear program
A satellite image shows the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in Iran. This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Natanz ...
'Now is the time': Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale
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Satellite imagery "shows a significant effort by Iran to rapidly demolish damaged or destroyed buildings, likely to sanitize any incriminating ...
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Three white tents, each about 810 feet long, have been erected, according to satellite imagery examined by The Associated Press. A half dozen ...
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The core piece of the Israeli-made satellite fleet for national security and intelligence collection purposes is the Ofek-class satellite system.
Mystery around $1.2 billion Army contract for Texas detention tent camp - AP News
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Perseverance Mars rover stumbles upon wind-carved 'megaripples' on the Red Planet
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Over the warm waters of the Gulf, Katrina rapidly intensified, becoming a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 175 mph on Aug. 28. A satellite image of ...
Twenty Years After Katrina: NOAA Satellite Advancements for Hurricane Forecasts and Tracking
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Satellite Launches
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The world's most powerful rocket aced a critical test launch this week, and the images from liftoff are stunning. Starship Flight 10 lifted off ...
Akula Tech launches AI-powered Nexus-01 satellite with real-time data - IT Brief Australia
"Our team has built an AI engine that can run in orbit, analyse complex data like hyperspectral imagery, and deliver insights with minimal latency.
Quick Take: North Korea's Newest Warships Unlikely to Have Sailed
Based on multiple medium-resolution commercial satellite images both ships appear to have remained at or close to port since they were launched. State ...
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Iran has launched a speedy clean-up operation at a nuclear-related site ... Satellite imagery "shows a significant effort by Iran to rapidly ...
Satellite Photos Show Chinese Ship Badly Damaged in South China Sea Crash
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Two Spacecraft Align Perfectly To Recreate a Solar Eclipse in Space - SciTechDaily
... images of the Sun's corona, giving scientists new opportunities to study its structure and behavior. An immense challenge. The two satellites launched ...
Watch: Satellite images show North Korean warship laying on its side after botched launch - MSN
Satellite images show a damaged North Korean warship following a botched launch ceremony, which leader Kim Jong Un labelled a “criminal act”.
SpaceX launches record-breaking 30th flight of a Falcon 9 booster - Spaceflight Now
SpaceX launched more than 1,800 of these satellites across 74 missions so far in 2025. ... Check out more imagery of Saturday's liftoff of a ...
Satellite Photos Show China Turning Artificial Island Into Military Base - Newsweek
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Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on rocket's record-breaking 30th flight
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 Starlink satellites from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 28, 2025 at 4:12 a.m. EDT (0812 GMT).
Satellites role in Israel's war against Iran, Houthis | The Jerusalem Post
Israel Aerospace Industries launches communications satellite "Dror 1" into space, July 13, 2025. (photo credit: ISRAEL AEROSPACE ...
SPARCO releases satellite images of flood-affected areas | Breaking News - YouTube
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Twenty Years After Katrina: NOAA Satellite Advancements for Hurricane Forecasts and Tracking
... imagery during satellite eclipses. When the satellites passed through the Earth's shadow in the weeks around the spring and fall equinoxes, their ...
Orbiting Opportunity: Satellites as Pillars of Africa's Telecommunications Future
YahClick, a subsidiary of Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), launched ... In agriculture, satellite imagery and connectivity facilitate ...
SpaceX launches nearly 30 Starlink satellites - Spectrum News 13
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Planet Launches Pelican-3 and -4 Satellites to Supplement its Constellation of Tasking Satellites
Planet Labs has launched its high-resolution, AI-enabled Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites to orbit on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
EO-MSI
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Kinetic launch startup SpinLaunch announces $30m for LEO broadband constellation - DCD
... satellite broadband constellation. The company expects to deliver ... Maxar selected to build new Echostar XXIV satellite. Ukraine Starlink. 30 ...
BKSY's Growth Driven by Strong Government Contract Momentum - The Globe and Mail
BlackSky TechnologyBKSY continues to attract attention in the space and ... satellite imaging markets. Investors often weigh Planet's ...
France, Germany and U.K. trigger U.N. sanctions against Iran over nuclear program
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, where multiple buildings were destroyed from recent ...
UK, France and Germany initiate 'snapback' sanctions on Iran over status of nuclear program
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UK, France and Germany initiate 'snapback' sanctions on Iran over status of nuclear program - KSAT
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Satellite Photos Show Chinese Ship Badly Damaged in South China Sea Crash
Maxar's images confirmed for the first time that the Chinese ship had made it back to port since the collision near Scarborough Shoal, a Beijing- ...
UK, France and Germany initiate 'snapback' sanctions on Iran over status of nuclear program
... satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, where multiple buildings were destroyed from recent ...
Clean-up of Iran site likely to erase any evidence of nuclear work, research group says
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SAR
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And beneath that white expanse lies a world of hidden lakes. Researchers have now used satellite observations to infer that one such subglacial lake ...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Places Satellites from Indian Firms in Orbit
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Interspectral reaffirms collaboration with EOS innovating AM quality assurance
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Pixxel, Dhruva Space launch satellites onboard SpaceX's rocket - YourStory.com
The launch of three Firefly satellites of Pixxel marked the completion of the first phase of the start-up's constellation of six hyperspectral ...
Pixxel, Dhruva Space Launch Satellites Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket - BW Disrupt
Bengaluru's Pixxel expands Firefly constellation; Hyderabad-based Dhruva marks first commercial mission. Indian space-tech startups Pixxel and ...
SpaceX Falcon 9 Places Satellites from Indian Firms in Orbit
Indian firms Pixxel and Dhruva Space placed four satellites in orbit on a Falcon 9 rideshare, marking fresh steps in their commercial satellite ...
Indian startups showcase private space power with SpaceX: Pixxel space and Dhruva space ...
This launch is part of Pixxel's larger plan to create a full constellation of hyperspectral satellites, delivering high-resolution, near real-time ...
Spacex rocket places Indian startups' satellites into orbit - PressReader
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2 Indian startups successfully launch satellites on board SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
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SpaceX to launch Indian startups Pixxel, Dhruva Space satellites into orbit
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Pixxel's Hyperspectral Launch Delivers Data Deluge, Turbocharging AI Earth Monitoring
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