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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Philippines cyclones, Singaporean Chinese dubbed 'least attractive': 7 Asia highlights
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... satellite imagery, under a smuggling scheme meant to hide these transactions from scrutiny. The latest findings use daily Planet Labs satellite ...
Space data-powered solutions take spotlight in PhilSA's Space Business Innovation Challenge
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Meteorologist Nicholas Herboso takes a quick look back at the rare Dec. 8-9, 2017, snow event
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... satellite thermal images to assess whether current satellite ... Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from high-resolution imaging ...
Update: Major Port Grows at World's Biggest Construction Site - Newsweek
Recent satellite imagery shows steady progress at the Oxagon Port in Saudi Arabia's $500 billion Neom giga-project.
Conservation's Hot Topics of 2026: From Artificial Intelligence to Mirror Molecules
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TerraKit: an end-to-end library for preparation of AI-ready geospatial datasets for AGU 2025
The toolkit automatically matches, downloads, and processes the relevant satellite imagery, aligns it with any provided labels, and splits it into ...
Morteza Karimzadeh: New AI Methods Are Reshaping How Geographers Model Air ...
Traditional approaches rely on networks of ground-based monitors and satellite-derived aerosol data, but both leave important gaps. Many ...
Asia and the Pacific preparing for a new era of disaster risks | ESCAP
... satellite-derived data show vast inundation across a) Hat Yai, Thailand ... imagery for emergency planning, proving the value of shared ...
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Klarna launches global AI climate adaptation initiative
Applications spanned areas including climate-smart agriculture, early-warning systems, satellite-imagery analysis and generative AI voice tools.
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Sudan Witness verified the location of footage of the destroyed market and corroborated it with satellite imagery showing new burn scars over the area ...
Atmospheric River arrives in Oregon, Washington - Facebook
The highly advertised atmospheric river arrives today across the region. Satellite imagery shows the long plume of moisture taking aim at ...
Major flooding on way for Western Washington this week - Everett Post
“The latest satellite imagery is stunning…and concerning. A huge plume of water vapor, extending thousands of miles to the southwest, is about to ...
Space Force Awards Muon Space $44.6M in SBIR Funding for 3-Satellite Mission
The mission will build on technology developed for the FireSat wildfire-monitoring with the Earth Fire Alliance, which saw the first satellite launch ...
Satellite Launches
Satellite Constellations May Ruin Up To 96% Of Astronomy Pictures Even From Telescopes In Space
... images will have at least one satellite streak in them ... NASA ran its analysis on the assumption that all currently proposed satellites will launch ...
Sentinel-1D delivers stunning images just two days after launch - Earth.com
A new radar satellite, Sentinel-1D, delivers sharp images of Antarctica, South America, and Europe just days after launch.
Amazon Leo and Arianespace set sail for first launch on Ariane 6
Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network, Amazon Leo, reached another milestone this week as Arianespace's hybrid industrial cargo ship, Canopée, ...
China launches group of internet satellites into space - Anadolu Ajansı
Satellites successfully deployed into orbit by Long March-6A rocket from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province - Anadolu Ajansı.
Airbus fosters Barry Callebaut`s efforts to develop a deforestation-free supply chain
... satellite imagery at various resolutions ranging from 10m to Pléiades Neo's 30cm resolution. ... Starling, launched in 2016 as a joint initiative ...
Applying the Principles of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to Space - Universe Today
And with the rapid growth of commercial launch services and the proliferation of satellite constellations, the situation is only likely to get worse.
Philippines cyclones, Singaporean Chinese dubbed 'least attractive': 7 Asia highlights
Thailand launches air strikes on Cambodia after soldier killed ... Satellite imagery shows Super Typhoon Fung-wong as it approaches the ...
Update: Major Port Grows at World's Biggest Construction Site - Newsweek
Recent satellite imagery shows steady progress at the Oxagon Port in ... launch of initial port operations and services. Newsweek reached out ...
Israel launches new wave of air attacks on Lebanon, straining fragile truce - Al Jazeera
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... satellite imagery captured in February 2025. The resolution reaches ... The launch currently focuses on the Mont-Blanc region, one of the ...
Satellites Missed Most Farm Fires In Punjab And Haryana: Report - NDTV
... Launches 28 New Starlink Satellites as Falcon 9 Hits Another Milestone ... Images, NASA Warns · SpaceX Adds 29 New Starlink Satellites in ...
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on record 32nd flight of Falcon 9 rocket (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025.
Light From Satellites Will Ruin Majority Of Some Space Telescope Images, Study Says
SPHEREx launched this year while ARRAKIHS and Xuntian have yet to launch. A prized image could come when “you are observing a galaxy and then suddenly ...
Sudan air force bombing of towns, markets and schools has killed hundreds, report says
Sudan Witness verified the location of footage of the destroyed market and corroborated it with satellite imagery showing new burn scars over the area ...
Klarna launches global AI climate adaptation initiative
Applications spanned areas including climate-smart agriculture, early-warning systems, satellite-imagery analysis and generative AI voice tools.
Live updates ahead of SpaceX rocket launch from KSC Monday afternoon - Florida Today
... launch a batch of 29 Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff of this ... SpaceX shared these onboard images captured during a recent Starlink ...
Hungry Hippo Fairing Successfully Qualified: Rocket Lab Clears Significant Milestone on ...
Rocket Lab is a leading space company that provides launch services, spacecraft, payloads and satellite components serving commercial, government, and ...
Iceye's Latest Raise Values Company at $2.8 Billion - Via Satellite
Launch · Technology · Digital Magazine; Interactive ... imagery, while nations seeking full control can deploy their own turnkey satellite missions.
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(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) ... Satellite stocks rose early Monday, riding a wave of excitement about recent reports that Tesla CEO Elon Musk's ...
Space Force Awards Muon Space $44.6M in SBIR Funding for 3-Satellite Mission
It will serve SBEM priorities of cloud characterization and theater weather imagery. ... satellite launch earlier this year. It also builds on Muon's ...
EO-MSI
Artificial Intelligence Uncovers 5,000-Year-Old Civilizations Hidden Beneath the World's ...
By analyzing WorldView-3 satellite imagery and feeding it into AI models trained on archaeological signatures—like clustered structures and ...
Apps including weather, Google Maps and WhatsApp now available on Rogers Satellite
Rogers Communication launched text messaging services on their first-of-its-kind satellite beta program back in July. It will launch commercially on ...
Airbus fosters Barry Callebaut`s efforts to develop a deforestation-free supply chain
... Neo 30cm resolution satellite imagery. @Pléiades Neo Airbus DS 2023. @BarryCallebaut @EarthwormFoundation. #Sustainability #Starling #PleiadesNeo ...
Iran continues to 'violate its international obligations' as it blocks IAEA inspections - Rudaw
This handout satellite image released by Maxar Technologies on June 19, 2025 and taken on June 18, 2025, shows a view of the Iranian nuclear facility ...
TotalEnergies to Merge UK Assets With Neo Next JV | Energy Intelligence
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Satellite Market to Reach USD 15.52 Billion by 2035 With a CAGR - openPR.com
... Maxar Technologies (US) Several key factors are propelling the satellite market forward. Government initiatives in Earth observation and remote ...
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US satellite firm 3D-maps one of China's most strategic naval bases
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WorldView 3 ("WV-3") satellite successfully captured image and spectral data over Santas Gloria: 100% clean, unobstructed capture, translating to ...
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Phase 1 soil sampling ("Phase 1") has been completed ahead of schedule, and under budget: · WorldView 3 ("WV-3") satellite successfully captured image ...
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Ukraine's Contra Drone develops C-UAS ground robotic system NEO - Unmanned airspace
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Starlink India pricing revealed: How much does the monthly plan cost and what are the benefits?
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SAR
Researchers claim 'massive hidden structures' lay buried beneath Giza Pyramids
... satellite operators - Umbra, Capella Space, ICEYE, and Italy's Cosmo-SkyMed - all produced identical raw tomography data displaying the same ...
Poland shows first photos taken by new radar satellite - TVP World
Poland has released the first images from its new military radar satellite ICEYE, a system capable of photographing Earth clearly at any time of day ...
Molten leads Modo funding round, partially realises ICEYE holding
... ICEYE Oy. The technology-focused venture capital firm ... ICEYE Espoo, a Finland-based synthetic aperture radar satellite designer and operator.
ICEYE Secures New Funding in Successful Series E Round led by General Catalyst
ICEYE has secured EUR 150 million in new funding to accelerate its delivery of sovereign satellite systems and data intelligence services.
'Hidden megastructures' beneath Egypt's Giza pyramids 'detected' by scientists
... satellite operators - Umbra, Capella Space, ICEYE, and Italy's Cosmo-SkyMed - each generated identical raw tomography data pointing to the same ...
ICEYE partners with Munich Re unit to expand access to nat cat intelligence
ICEYE, a global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data and natural catastrophe solutions, has entered into a new strategic ...
Giza Pyramids 'just tip of iceberg' as scientist 'confirm' hidden structures beneath
... satellite operators - Umbra, Capella Space, ICEYE, and Italy's Cosmo-SkyMed - each generated matching raw tomography data pointing to the same ...
Molten takes some profits in Seraphim-backed ICEYE after satellite company hits £2.1bn ...
Molten Ventures (GROW) has taken £17.5m in gains from ICEYE, the Finnish satellite operator which it says recently secured a €2.4bn (£2.1bn) ...
Gatehouse Satcom Joins Forces with Cobham Satcom for a Global 5G Satellite ...
... satellite industry's transition towards standardized 5G-based ... ICEYE, OHB Italia, and C3S's. December 1, 2025 News | Space for Earth ...
Molten Ventures Invests in Modo Energy and Realises Value in ICEYE - WebDisclosure
In a separate move, Molten Ventures has partially realised its investment in ICEYE—a company operating the world's largest SAR satellite constellation ...
Modo Energy Series B investment, and ICEYE fundraise with partial realisation
ICEYE operates the world's largest synthetic aperture radar (“SAR”) satellite constellation, providing objective, near real-time insights to ...
Molten Ventures leads £25m funding round for Modo Energy - Investing.com
ICEYE operates what it describes as the world's largest SAR satellite constellation, with 62 satellites launched to date. The company plans to ...
Giza pyramids 'tip of iceberg', above megastructures scientists claim | History - Daily Express
... satellite operators - Umbra, Capella Space, ICEYE, and Italy's Cosmo-SkyMed - each generated identical raw tomography data showing the same ...
Icom Brings New Connectivity to Remote Crews - Digital Ship
Icom UK is now offering a straightforward alternative by pairing the Icom IP110H Wi Fi transceiver with the Starlink satellite service. ... ICEYE US to ...
Scientists 'confirm' existence of hidden megastructures beneath Egypt's Giza pyramids
... satellite operators —Umbra, Capella Space, ICEYE, and Italy's Cosmo-SkyMed — each produced matching raw tomography data indicating the same ...
Cobham Satcom to Acquire Gatehouse Satcom - Via Satellite
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Iceye's Latest Raise Values Company at $2.8 Billion - Via Satellite
Iceye raised 150 million euro in new funding led by General Catalyst, with the latest raise valuing the satellite company at 2.4 billion euro ...
Hidden shafts beneath Egypt's Giza pyramids are 'confirmed' by scientists | Daily Mail Online
In a new interview on Jesse Michels' American Alchemy podcast, Biondi revealed that four independent satellite operators, Umbra, Capella Space, ICEYE ...
SWISSto12 Celebrates Success - 3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
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Space-Based Intelligence Initiatives - Trend Hunter
Space-Based Intelligence - The Finnish company ICEYE, a provider of synthetic aperture radar satellite imaging, has announced the completion of a ...