Nov 7, 2018 | CLS Group, Environment and Climate, Innovation
Metop-C has on board a new ARGOS instrument. ARGOS is a satellite system dedicated to the localization and the data collection, created by CNES in partnership with NASA and NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) and supported by European and...
Oct 30, 2018 | Environment and Climate
For the past year, at CLS, the CaSyS project team (SWIM’s Calval Systematic) has been developing diagnostics to understand and analyze the data from CFOSAT, a Franco-Chinese satellite that was successfully launched on October 29, 2018. In about ten days, CLS’...
Oct 9, 2018 | Environment and Climate
Monday, October 8 was published the report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) which confirms the need to achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2025 to limit the average rise in temperatures to 1,5°C. In this report, the IPCC warns about the...
Sep 17, 2018 | Environment and Climate
In Southeast Asia, typhoons happened more regularly than in others areas. On September 15, 2018, super Typhoon Mangkhut hit the Philippines with winds reaching 255 km / h, heavy rains and huge waves. While super typhoon Mangkhut is heading towards southeast Asia...
Sep 14, 2018 | Environment and Climate
In 2018, the consortium CLS-NBE has been awarded a project with the European Space Agency, ESA, to implement an innovative EO (Earth Observation) service to monitor floating Sargassum algae in the Caribbean area. Detecting Sargassum Since 2011, huge sargassum...
Jul 10, 2018 | Environment and Climate
To understand the climate change, such global phenomenon needs to be studied from above. In Toulouse, a unique European industry exists. An industry which designs and manufactures instruments and key satellites for Earth observation but not only… This industry...
