Mar 2, 2017 | Environment and Climate
Sentinel-2A will be joined by its twin, the Sentinel-2B satellite on the night of March 6-7. These two satellites of optical imagers will ensure a revisit of the same site every 5 days. The Sentinel 2 mission led by the European Space Agency is part of the Earth...
Jan 20, 2017 | Environment and Climate, Sustainable Fisheries Management
The Intel®-powered Thorium X features an integrated Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) modem and flexible satellite antenna that significantly expands the reliability, speed, and cost-effectiveness of mobile communications. As a result, users will be able to maintain...
Jul 18, 2016 | Environment and Climate, Maritime Security, Sustainable Fisheries Management
Several actors of Quai des Sciences in Brest (france), including CLS, have been decided this year to promote the role of the ocean on climate. Climate issues are opening broad scientific and technological fields to explore. International Maritime Festival Brest 2016...
Jul 12, 2016 | Environment and Climate
For over a year, CLS has provided satellite data to help clean the bay of Rio de Janeiro in the run-up of the 2016 Olympics. A major task was given by the Brazilian government to CLS and its subsidiary Prooceano by the Brazilian government: to help clean up the...
Jul 2, 2016 | Environment and Climate
Image © C. Bost CEBC-CNRS Global warming in the Arctic means that ice fields are forming later and later in the year. Polar bears linger for longer on the coastlines. Their hunger pushes them to venture increasingly into Inuit villages, rummaging through dustbins,...
Jun 3, 2016 | Environment and Climate, Maritime Security
Download the PDF On Monday 25 April, at 23h02 (UTC), the European Sentinel 1-B satellite was placed in orbit by a Soyuz launcher from the European space port at Kourou in French Guiana. CLS, a subsidiary of CNES, ARDIAN and IFREMER, will soon be receiving its data...
