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
Putin Deploys Nuke Missiles With All Of Europe Within Russian Strike Range | WATCH
Satellite imagery and U.S. researchers suggest Russia is moving nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missiles to Belarus, dramatically extending ...
Reuters finds out where Russian-made Oreshnik systems may be deployed in Belarus
... missiles at a former air base in eastern Belarus near the city of Krychaw, two American researchers have concluded based on satellite imagery.
Ukraine Now Using Drone Boats To Attack Russian Riverine Targets - The War Zone
... Intelligence Directorate (GUR). ... However, unlike Ukraine's long-range USVs, the Barracuda is not equipped with satellite communications.
Satellite images suggest new Russian nuclear-capable missile site near Krichev in Belarus
... commercial satellite imagery. Jeffrey Lewis, of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and Decker Eveleth, of the CNA research and ...
Belarus' Oreshnik Deployed at Former Airfield, 4 km from Russian Border - Militarnyi
The location of the positions was determined by Planet Labs' analysis of satellite imagery of potentially suitable locations.
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Since that first day, every official insistence from Moscow has been disproven by the next satellite image, the next intercepted call, or the next ...
Study on the spatiotemporal variation mechanisms of soil moisture in maize fields - Nature
& Entekhabi, D. Satellite-based ... Prediction of severe drought area based on random forest: using satellite image and topography data.
The United States warns that China's Navy could field a fleet of nine aircraft carriers by 2035
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A county-level prediction framework for wheat stripe rust using an improved spatio-temporal model
In contrast, this study contributes constructively by integrating satellite imagery and spectral thresholding to enable large-scale, spatially ...
China launches satellite to aid in early extreme weather detection - Chinadaily.com.cn
China launched a new geostationary meteorological satellite on Saturday, aiming to boost the country's ability to monitor extreme weather events ...
Why bomb Sokoto? Trump's strikes baffle Nigerians - Financial Times
... image grab made on October 31, 2014 from a video obtained by AFP shows · World · Satellite images reveal scale of Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria.
Ukraine war briefing: Kim Jong-un celebrates sharing 'blood, life and death' with Russia
... satellite imagery. Jeffrey Lewis and Decker Eveleth said they based their finding on imagery from Planet Labs, a commercial satellite firm, that ...
Russia using Belarus territory to bypass Ukraine's defences, says Zelenskyy - Al Jazeera
One “dead giveaway” in a November 19 satellite image was a “military-grade rail transfer point” enclosed by a security fence to which missiles, their ...
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... satellite imagery by the rooftops. r/melbourne ...
FENGYUN-4C meteorological satellite lifted off
... satellite into its designated orbit using the Changzheng-3 rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan. FY-4C is the latest member ...
Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus, researchers find
... satellite imagery. The researchers' assessment broadly aligns with U.S. intelligence findings, said a person familiar with the matter who spoke on ...
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Satellite Launches
Satellite images suggest new Russian nuclear-capable missile site near Krichev in Belarus
... launch infrastructure. They described what they believed to be rapid construction beginning in early August 2025, with changes visible between ...
Reuters finds out where Russian-made Oreshnik systems may be deployed in Belarus
... missiles at a former air base in eastern Belarus near the city of Krychaw, two American researchers have concluded based on satellite imagery.
Update: China launches new satellite, boosting meteorological observation capabilities
... Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. ... Its lightning imager captures 500 frames per second and can identify ...
Space Brief 27 Dec 2025 - KeepTrack
... satellites built for obtaining stereo images of the Earth's surface. ... Unknown Payload from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ...
Iranian FM: Iran satellite program 'entirely peaceful' ahead of triple launch - ISNA
... launch three domestically built satellites into orbit this weekend. ... It provides imagery with a resolution of roughly five meters in black ...
Russia Launches Massive Hypersonic Missile Attack On Kyiv Hours Before Trump-Zelensky Meet
5:34 · Go to channel. Putin Deploys Oreshnik Missiles Closer To Europe, US Satellite Images Reveal | Times Now World. Times Now World New 572 views.
OlmoEarth AI Platform Launches As Amazon Crackdown Intensifies - Evrim Ağacı
Proprietary platforms like Google Earth AI have shown what's possible when satellite imagery meets advanced analytics, but those systems are often ...
China launches satellite to aid in early extreme weather detection - Chinadaily.com.cn
The geostationary radiation imager can complete a scan of China and its surrounding areas every five minutes and perform continuous rapid imaging ...
Former ULA president and CEO Tory Bruno joins Blue Origin - Spaceflight Now
In addition to Bruno's work at ULA, which saw the launches of numerous government satellites to a variety of orbits, he previously worked for decades ...
Commercial neighbors Stoke Space and Relativity Space Advance make progress on Cape ...
Sentinel-6B ocean monitoring satellite launches aboard Falcon 9 ... Aerial imagery highlights substantial changes since NSF flyovers. The most ...
FENGYUN-4C meteorological satellite lifted off
... Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan. FY-4C is the latest member of FY-4 ... imager onboard FY-4C has achieved China's first-ever ionospheric spectral ...
Abu Dhabi launches AI, satellite project to detect illegal waste dumping - The Filipino Times
The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has launched a pilot project that uses artificial intelligence and satellite imagery to detect illegal ...
China launches new satellite to enhance disaster weather forecasting - CGTN
China launched a new meteorological satellite from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday.
Satellite images reveal how China created artificial islands after 12 years of dumping sand ...
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Report: US believes Russia is deploying hypersonic missiles with nuclear capabilities
Two researchers told Reuters news agency, based on satellite imagery. The researchers noted this development would make it easier for Moscow to ...
Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus, researchers find
... satellite imagery. The researchers' assessment broadly aligns with U.S. ... launch point. Pavel Podvig, a Geneva-based expert on Russia's ...
Falcon 9 launch of Italy's COSMO-SkyMed mission scheduled for Saturday evening - KEYT
... satellites to the first-generation satellites already in orbit. ... According to NASA, the X-Band is used by SAR systems seeking high-resolution imaging ...
Starlink Rival Launches Its Largest Satellite Yet for Space-Based Cellular Network
Texas startup AST SpaceMobile launched BlueBird 6, the first of its next-generation satellites, this week—and boy was it a big one.
Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi implements AI, satellite technology to identify illegal waste ...
AI or ...
Exclusive: Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus ...
... could bolster Russia's ability to deliver missiles across Europe, two U.S. researchers have found by studying satellite imagery.
EO-MSI
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Tonlé Sap, Cambodia | NASA Earthdata
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CubeSat Market Size, Share & Growth Report 2033
... satellite capacity, PlanetScope, SkySat, and AI-enabled imagery services. Spire Global Inc. Spire Global Inc operates one of the world's largest ...
Satellite-derived map highlighting study sites (Source: ESRI, Maxar,... - ResearchGate
Download scientific diagram | Satellite-derived map highlighting study sites (Source: ESRI, Maxar, and Earthstar Geographics), including (A) which ...
MAXAR's HEO satellite captured an image of an unusual object in low Earth orbit ...
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SAR
2025: A bag of mixed fortunes for Indian space sector
... satellite launch missions of strategic importance- navigation satellite NVS-02 and earth observation satellite EOS-09. The satellite is meant to ...
Eos Energy names former Constellation CEO as new board chair - Pittsburgh Business Times
Joseph Nigro, former Exelon CFO and Constellation CEO, will become board chair of Eos Energy Enterprises on January 1, 2026.
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In regions near La Libertad and La Paz in Guaviare, roads that were nearly invisible in satellite images two decades ago now run for dozens of ...
What Went Wrong—and Right—in India's Space Sector in 2025 - Orbital Today
... satellite NVS-02 and the Earth observation satellite EOS-09. The NVS-02 satellite was intended to replace the ageing IRNSS-1E in India's regional ...
2025: A bag of mixed fortunes for Indian space sector
... satellite launch missions of strategic importance-navigation satellite NVS-02 and earth observation satellite EOS-09. The satellites were meant to ...
ISRO 2026 Missions: Everything You Need to Know About Gaganyaan, Oceansat-3A and ...
Another flagship mission slated for early 2026 is the Oceansat-3A (EOS-10) satellite launch aboard a PSLV vehicle manufactured by Indian industry ...
Alen Space begins SATMAR satellite validation over Bay of Algeciras
... satellite over the Bay of Algeciras in southern Spain. Over the past ... Exactly 15 years ago, in December 2010, the German TanDEM-X mission ...
OPERA satellite data sharpens US crop and water management - Space Daily
... satellite products that mat. ... Exactly 15 years ago, in December 2010, the German TanDEM-X mission ...
Severn Trent and ICEYE Launch Satellite-Based Flood and Wastewater Monitoring in UK ...
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HSI
RF
Chinese Coast Guard Caught Using Stealth Tactics in Disputed Philippine Waters, Satellites ...
Satellite data is now offering unprecedented insight into the stealth ... Unseenlabs, a Brittany-based company, has spent the past decade ...
2025's most-read stories in Maritime Optimisation & Communications
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CubeSat Market Size, Share & Growth Report 2033
By combining satellite-based observations with advanced analytics and AI, Spire offers actionable insights for shipping, aviation, climate monitoring, ...
Analysts Set Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE:SPIR) PT at $12.50 - Defense World
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) is a space-to-cloud data and analytics company that operates a constellation of low Earth orbit nanosatellites to collect ...