Turning Water Risk into Resilience in Peru with Satellite Technology
From drought-stressed highlands to flood-ravaged coasts, Peru’s relationship with water is one of extremes. In the Andes, mining and agriculture are challenged by scarcity. In the north, regions...
CLS at the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference
Committed to a sustainable future for the ocean From June 4 to 13, 2025, CLS will actively participate in the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), held in Nice and Monaco. Alongside official...
Indonesia Selects France and CLS to Boost Marine Weather Capabilities with Landmark $100M Contract
CLS, a subsidiary of the French Space Agency (CNES) and investment firm CNP, and a global leader in Earth observation and environmental monitoring services, has announced the signing of a major €93...
Camille Keisser, Data Scientist: When AI Explores Ocean Currents
She’s only 24, but an already impressive career, from the lecture halls of Imperial College London, to the trails of South America, and now, the Mediterranean currents. Camille Keisser joined CLS as...
A New Era of Argos Smart Environmental Solutions
Back in 2018, Kinéis, the brainchild of CNES and CLS, was created with one objective: revolutionizing the first space IoT dedicated to the environment. Now, the adventure has come full orbit thanks...
EvoLAND: a New Breakthrough in Water Detection
EvoLand is a European project working to improve how we monitor landscapes using satellite technology. It aims to enhance the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) by developing new tools that...
CLS’s Industrial Division Develops Innovative Connected Beacons
For over 40 years, CLS has been developing satellite solutions to study and protect the planet and manage its resources sustainably. One of its key strengths? Its industrial division dedicated to...
Argos Services Enhanced with 4th Successful Launch of 5 Nanosats
We are excited to share that our Space IoT partner Kinéis and their launcher Rocket Lab have successfully launched another 5 nanosats for the fourth time. The addition of these state-of-the-art...
Silence is Golden: CLS Acquires Quiet-Oceans for a Quieter Ocean
Quiet-Oceans, a leading French company specializing in studying the impact of noise on marine life, advised by Société Générale's M&A teams, has joined CLS, a subsidiary of the French Space...
A Third Milestone for Argos Services: Successful launch of 5 more IoT Nanosats
Congratulations to our Space IoT partner Kinéis and their launcher Rocket Lab on the third successful launch of 5 more nanosatellites. With these additional satellites now in orbit, the...
CLS Signs MMS2, the Most Important Contract of Its History with Indonesia
CLS is proud to announce the signing of a landmark agreement with the Indonesian Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) to develop the second phase of Indonesia's...
CLS acquires Enviro & Industrial Solutions ME, enhances its range of environmental protection solutions and expands into the Middle East
CLS, a globally recognized leader in satellite-based environmental monitoring, is proud to announce the acquisition of Enviro & Industrial Solutions Middle East (EIS-ME). EIS-ME, a provider of...
Another 5 New IoT Satellites for Your Smart Solutions
Well done to Kinéis, our space IoT partner, and Rocket Lab, their launcher, for this second successful launch! A few hours ago another five nanosatellites were placed in orbit, joining the first...
Partnership for Ecological Transition: CA2BM and CLS Take Action for Net Land Take (ZAN)
In 2021, ADEME (the French Agency for Ecological Transition) launched a call for expressions of interest to support local areas committed to reducing land artificialization, as part of the Climate...
Transforming South African Agriculture: The Power of Space Technology
South African agriculture is anticipated to face a 17% water shortfall by 2030, creating a significant challenge for the industry. Neville Boorman, an expert in smart agriculture and IoT Farming at...
CLS’ Solutions Are Getting a Boost
Congratulations to our Space IoT partner Kinéis and their launcher Rocket Lab for this evening’s successful launch! Today, the first five of a planned constellation of 25 nanosatellites are in...
New Generation of Argos Services are on Their Way With the 1st Launch of the Kineis Constellation on the 20th of June!
Kinéis, our Space IoT partner, has announced that it, along with RocketLab, will launch the first five nanosatellites carrying new generation IoT payloads for Argos services, on the 20th of June....
Innovating for the Planet: AI and Water Management with Jérémy Augot, Data Scientist at CLS
Climate change is intensifying global water stress, making the management of our water resources more critical than ever. At the forefront of this challenge, CLS and its experts in data science and...
CLS’ Water Platform: Digitizing Water Resilience
With water scarcity affecting more than 40% of the global population according to The World Bank, managing water resources effectively is no longer strategic, but necessary. A trailblazer in Earth...
Solar Storm: CLS had Anticipated Intense Activity
CLS had anticipated intense activity as part of its solar activity forecasting service for civil aviation! For about 20 years, CLS has been forecasting the geomagnetic activity of the most important...
CLS DataLab: When Data Springs into Action
The CLS DataLab is an internal, cross-functional innovation hub within our group, made up of data scientists, developers, and Big Data engineers. Its primary mission is to develop large-scale data...
TOPEX/Poseidon: The Satellite Mission Still Shaping Climate Science
Today, we all know that the ocean affects the climate by moving water and heat around the world. But it wasn't always clear that the fate of life on Earth is so closely tied to the ocean. This basic...
European Commission Renews its Trust in CLS to Lead a Component of the Copernicus Global Land Service Until 2027
The European Copernicus program provides reliable and up-to date information on how our planet and its climate are changing which helps decision makers, businesses and citizens define environmental...
Unveiling the Urgent Reality of Polar Ice Sheets Melting – Insights from a Leading Ice Expert
Amid rising scientific concern over the world’s melting continental ice, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has pledged €1bn to fund polar research between now and 2030. Over the last 30 years,...
Unlocking Amazon’s Secrets: CLS at the Forefront of Discovery
The Amazon is a gigantic river, the most powerful in the world. It’s responsible for 20% of the freshwater running into the ocean and is the largest contributor of fluvial sediments into the oceans....
ULYSSE Project: A Strategic Response to France’s Zero Net Land Take (ZNLT) Law
Zero Net Land Take (ZNLT) is a goal set for 2050 in France's "Climate and Resilience" law of August 24, 2021. It calls for a 50% reduction in the rate of artificialization and consumption of...
Protecting Albatrosses From Space
Today is World Albatross Day, a perfect opportunity to highlight the incredible role played by CLS, the historical operator of the Argos satellite system, now provider of the environmental Argos...
Desertification: the space, a tool to resilience
Desertification and land degradation are very serious challenges to humanity’s ability to survive in many areas of the world. They lead to hunger and poverty, unemployment, forced migration, and...
CLS, Data Partner for Our Planet Ocean
Today it’s the World Ocean Day, a day to remember us that the ocean covers over 70% of our planet. It is our life source, supporting humanity’s sustenance and that of every other organism on earth....
CLS Connecting the Sea Surface Salinity Network (SNO SSS)
We met up with Gaël Alory, a lecturer and research scientist in ocean dynamics at the LEGOS space geophysics and oceanography research laboratory who is leading the SNO SSS program. He details the...
New step for the Indonesian Maritime Meteorological System (MMS1) delivered by CLS and its partners : High Performance Computing is now operational at BMKG HQ
To meet Indonesia’s ambitions to develop and secure the maritime economy of the country gathering 17,000 islands, the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) called on...
High Seas Treaty: UN Makes Historic Deal to Protect International Waters
“The ship has reached the shore,” conference chair Rena Lee announced at UN headquarters in New York shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, to a round of applause from delegates. The first...
Celebrations of the success of Argos-4
This Thursday, January 19, 2023, space experts were gathered at CLS to celebrate the successful launches of Gazelle last September and OceanSat-3 last November. Among them CLS experts were extremely...
SWOT: Count-down to launch
For nearly a decade engineers at the French Space Agency, NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and the UK Space Agency have been designing and building a satellite set to be a game-changer for hydrology...
COP 27: Using Space to adapt to climate change
Today marks the start of COP27. Held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention...
Smart land management: CLS a partner of Martinique provides a tool to manage its agricultural lands
Download the PDF Today, an estimated 821 million people on Earth are undernourished. The current agricultural system is under pressure from population growth and climate change. The climate is...
CLS and its partners welcomed the members of a BMKG delegation for a special steering committee
On November 23, 2020, CLS signed an historic contract with the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) for a project named MMS for Maritime Meteorological System aiming...
PT CLS Argos Indonesia, partner of the most advanced Maritime Meteorological System
To meet Indonesia’s ambitions to develop and secure the maritime economy of the country gathering 17,000 islands, the BKMG (Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics) called on...
Smart cities: Satellite solutions for a sustainable future
More than half the world’s population live in urban areas, and this will continue to increase. This means that adaptation to climate change depends centrally on what is done in urban centers. City...
CLS, Space sentinels for endangered species
According to a recent study, the sixth mass extinction of wildlife on Earth is accelerating with more than 500 species of land animals currently on the brink of extinction and likely to be lost...
The Indonesian challenges
Our editorial teams interviewed Jean-Baptiste Voisin, Director of PTCLS Argos Indonesia on the challenges facing the country and the place of space and data technologies to address them. How...
NAGIS Project in Vietnam
With the Directorate of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, CLS is performing a feasibility study “NAGIS-FASEP” (National Aquaculture Geographic Information...
World IoT Day: IoT working for our planet
Did you know that CLS was tracking satellite-connected objects before the invention of GPS? CLS and the French space agency CNES, with the Argos satellite system, in fact invented the IoT—the...
EUMETSAT & CLS, committed to better understanding weather systems
The strength and frequency of extreme weather events has grown due to climate change: floods, cyclones, storms, typhoons, but also droughts are more and more devastating. So, it comes as no surprise...
First Equipment Deployments in the MMS Project
To meet Indonesia’s ambitions to develop and secure the maritime economy of the country gathering 17,000 islands, the BKMG (Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics) called on...
World Water Day: The solution will come from the skies
Falls run dry We all recall the terrible images released at the end of 2019, showing the Victoria Falls almost dry. Such images bear witness to the persistent drought in recent years in some areas,...
The Earth’s forests are suffering: Alarming rates in many countries
“Silent forest, pleasant solitude, how I love to walk through your shadows oft ignored! In your dark paths, dreaming as I wander, I feel free of all worries. Dear to my heart! I think I glimpse the...
How is satellite data helping the environment?
In a world where the changing environment and our impact is discussed, where forests and lands are burning, where global warming is raging, where pollution and the plundering of our natural...
IPCC’s Second Report: Innovative space-based solutions to adapt to climate change
Last year, the first of three reports issued as part of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, announced a code red for humanity and warned that human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented...
Women in Science: Meet two Altimetry Experts at EUMETSAT & CLS
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly declared the 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the aim to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and...
One Ocean Summit: 55 million traditional fishermen on the scales
Download the PDF Small-scale fisheries sustain more than 90% of the world's fishermen. It's estimated that traditional fishing accounts for some 50% of global fish catches. Until now, there were no...
Jean-Louis Etienne, an explorer accompanied from space
On May 11, 1986, Jean-Louis Etienne, doctor, and French explorer was the first man to reach the North Pole alone by sled. This achievement was officially recognized by CLS thanks to the Argos beacon...
Innovation – World Conservation Congress: CLS announces it is putting AI, BIG DATA and an XXL Space system at the service of biodiversity
Download the PDF On the 3rd of September, France will open the doors of the World Conservation Congress held in Marseille. Thousands of speakers, NGOs, national and international agencies are...
CLS on the fire front
After Turkey, the Balkan region, Greece and the Algarve in Portugal, it is now France's turn to be threatened by fire. The fire that has affected the Var region since Monday 16 August is the most...
CLS will be present at the IUCN World Congress in September in Marseille
CLS supports IUCN's goal: Protect Biodiversity & the Environment The IUCN congress will be held in Marseille between the 3rd and 11th September with one goal: unite more than 10 000 experts from...
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Mangrove Monitoring
Several years agos, CLS delivered to the Indonesian government INDESO a complete center for sustainably manage indonesian marine resources and coastal natural richness. In this context one of the...
CLS helps raise awareness on coastal flood risks along European coasts from Space
Download the PDF Climate Change, sea level rising, and frequent extreme storm surges are increasing the risks of coastal flooding and putting the lives of millions of people at risk. In 2020, Europe...
Sargasso Seaweed in Sight
Download the PDF Local stakeholders, citizens and tourists missing white sandy beaches can now consult the evolution of these seaweed mats in the Caribbean online. Sargasso mats have serious impacts...
World Environment Day: Space-based solutions to help restore our ecosystems
We’re losing and destroying the foundations of our survival at an alarming rate. The UN’s FAO notes that over 4.7 million hectares of forests are lost every year and, according to the WWF’s 2020’s...
CLS: Key actor in global weather systems
World Meteorological day is a perfect opportunity to raise awareness on why understanding the weather is important. In 2020 fires in California & Colorado, due to extreme drought were recorded...