
CLS’s Industrial Division Develops Innovative Connected Beacons
For over 40 years, CLS has been developing satellite solutions to study and protect the...

Vendée Globe 2024 Edition – Ice Risk: Monitoring Icebergs from Space
How is the race made safer by detecting the most threatening icebergs? CLS enhances the...

Iceberg Straight Ahead: CLS Ensures Vendée Globe Safety from Space
Download the PDF The Vendée Globe is the ultimate adventure — a solo, non-stop, and...

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...

Navigating the Invisible: The Crucial Role of a Radar Imaging Expert
Aymeric Chandouineau, a Spatial Imaging Analyst at CLS, takes a few moments to assess a...

Franco-Sri Lankan Victory Against Eco-Crime
Download the PDF Flagrant pollution offences observed from space, criminal polluters...

French Customs rely on MAS for their daily missions
A powerful research and analysis tool, which enables French Customs to target vessels of...

Security at Sea: CLS Strengthens its Position Through Pivotal Contracts in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, and Acquires SAT ONE in Brazil
Download the PDF CLS, world leader in satellite-based maritime security, announces the...

Preserving our planet: Sri Lanka’s MEPA turns to CLS to deploy national satellite-based oil spill detection service
Download the PDF CLS, a French company developing satellite-based solutions for a...

Shipping: Panama Canal Transit Restrictions to be Expected for at Least 10 Months
Sentinel 1 image received and analyzed by CLS' VIGISAT station dated August 27 2023 shows...

CLS and Iceberg Detection from Space
Vendée Globe, Jules Verne Trophy, Barcelona ; the management of the biggest offshore races...

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...

Let’s talk drones and maritime security with Jim Sharples
Jim joined CLS and more specifically the Maritime Surveillance Business Unit on the 20th of...

Nadia Maaref: “My unwavering goal? To lead my team towards excellence in maritime surveillance”
Nadia Maaref has a smile, a look and a bearing that inspire everyone she meets. Behind the...

Meeting with the Delegation of French Polynesia at CLS Brest
In the context of the One Ocean Summit, CLS welcomed in its premises in Brest a Polynesian...

SwissDrones and CLS Group Deploy SDO 50 V2 Unmanned Helicopter for Maritime Operations
Download the PDF The companies successfully demonstrated ship-based operations for aerial...

CLS and TEKEVER, a European drone manufacturer have signed a new contract with the European Maritime Safety Agency for maritime surveillance by remotely piloted aircrafts
Download the PDF This innovative contract includes the deployment of lifeboats and many new...

Oil Spill in California: What can we see from Space?
Yesterday, the southern California beaches were affected by a massive oil spill, causing...

A drone able to deploy rescue raft to people in distress at sea
CLS, together with TEKEVER, have added a new life-saving capability to the maritime patrol...

CLS analysts investigate oil spill off Corsica from space
An oil spill has been detected at sea just East of Corsica, visible on the radar satellite...

The French Navy’s TRIMARAN III CONTRACT, which relies on CLS, mobilizes more than 300 satellites to monitor the French maritime space
Download the PDF With more than 11 million km² of Exclusive Economic Zone, France, having...

Tautkae storm: Barge in distress off the coast of Bombay, the shipwrecked trigger their Cospas-Sarsat system
On the 17th May, southwest of Bombay, a barge with more than 260 people onboard was adrift...

Saving lives with the Cospas-Sarsat system by Bruno Chazal, or the praise of diplomacy
CLS editorial staff met with Bruno Chazal, France's representative for the international...

Annick Girardin, Minister of the Sea in France, on a visit to Toulouse, discusses the utility of space in the management of maritime territories
Download the PDF On Friday, March 26, 2021, during a trip to Toulouse, Annick Girardin,...

CLS participates in 500th activation of Copernicus Emergency Management Service monitoring fire impact in Australia
On the 5th February 2021, during 5 days of extreme fire conditions, the state of Western...

Vendée Globe: satellites monitor the threat of the icebergs and we adapt the AEZ accordingly
While the RACE lead is currently in the middle of the Atlantic, some of the participants are...

Vendée Globe: Icebergs detected on the skippers’ route: Antarctic Exclusion Zone raised by 5 degrees to improve the safety of skippers
Since 2008, CLS, Official Supplier of ice data for the Vendée Globe, has been using...

Position: iceberg hunter
As the Southern ocean becomes the daily life of the competitors in the leading pack of the...

Vendée Globe 2020: The race has started!
CLS is a global company and pioneer provider of monitoring and surveillance solutions for...

Hydrocarbon Pollution Alert in Mauritius
The MV Wakashio, stranded on the reefs at Pointe-d'Esny, Mauritius, since 25 July, was...

Myanmar Steps up its Fight Against IUU Fishing Approving CLS Triton VMS for Monitoring its Offshore Fleet
Download the PDF Vessel monitoring systems (VMS) will help Myanmar reduce illegal,...

Indonesia Chooses Space Technology in the Fight Against Pollution
Plastic waste in the oceans has disastrous consequences for the environment and human...

The Sinking of the Erika, 20 Years Later – “The authorities were almost blind… today they can see everything”
On 12 December 1999, at dawn, in a raging ocean, the oil tanker Erika sank in 120 metres of...

VIGISAT: The space sector serving humanity and the environment celebrates its 10th anniversary November 14, 2019
Download the PDF The VIGISAT project has enabled many accomplishments over the past 10...

Brest Atlantiques Race: an iceberg monitoring system by CLS to accompany the skippers
The Brest Atlantiques race set off on November 5th, 2019. The 4 skippers in the...

International Day for the Fight Against IUU Fishing
FAO has declared June 5, 2019 as the International Day for the Fight against Illegal...

Grande America oil spill in France: what did we see from space?
On 12 March last, the Grande America sank in the Bay of Biscay. The data provided by the...

RPAS drone flights get underway in Spain to assist SASEMAR in its search and rescue and pollution monitoring operations
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Jules Verne Trophy: CLS detects dangerous icebergs via satellite
The Jules Verne trophy is an incredible circumnavigation speed challenge, for crewed...

CLS at the salon nautique de Paris Wednesday 12 December 2018
The salon nautique opened on December 8 Porte de Versailles. More than 800 exhibitors are...

Les Assises de l’économie de la mer : CLS Highlights
The Off of November 26: visit of CLS Brest with a delegation of about ten people, in the...

Les Assises de la Mer – Starting Today (27/11) for 2 Days of Workshops on the Blue Economy, in Brest, France
The “Assises de l’économie de la mer is the main event of the French maritime community....

A location tag provided by CLS has been active on Aquarius since March 19th
Since 19 March, a location tag has been provided by CLS to SOS Méditerranée to allow them...

SOS Méditerranée and CLS: a location beacon on the Aquarius
SOS Méditerranée is an association of citizens who charters a ship, the Aquarius, to help...

France well coordinated to efficiently support fight against pollution at sea
CLS together with the Cluster Maritime Français, organized on March 21st, a presentation of...

Which technologies for the fight against marine pollution ?
CLS organizes with the Cluster Maritime Français a breakfast of...

Stop Illegal Fishing by 2020: A Crucial Challenge. There are solutions !
Today, marine resources are often overexploited (overfishing, illegal, unregulated,...

CLS, ready to take the challenge of Blue Growth
In a meeting organized with representatives of the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique, Nicolas...

SALON DU BOURGET 2017: CLS develops and promotes space applications
The Paris Air Show 2017 "Salon du Bourget" is a privileged moment to describe the new...

CLS keep an eye on the oceans
With nearly 20 years of expertise, CLS uses data from several satellites including sentinels...

The Vendée Globe a race under high satellite surveillance.
The Vendée Globe is the only solo, non-stop, without assistance sailboat race around the...

CLS at the Sea tech Week
From 10 to 14 October 2016, 10th edition of Sea Tech Week Sea Tech Week, international...

Brest 2016: “Oceans and climate”
Several actors of Quai des Sciences in Brest (france), including CLS, have been decided this...

CLS & Sentinel 1 : Mediterranean pollution
CLS detects oil spills by using satellite radar images, determines the drift trajectories of...

With the successful launch of Sentinel-1B, on the evening of 25 April, CLS is continuing to watch over our planet
Download the PDF On Monday 25 April, at 23h02 (UTC), the European Sentinel 1-B satellite was...

Maritime piracy : a collaborative approach
Collation and dissemination of information regarding maritime piracy and armed robbery at sea

SATELLITE-LINKED DRONES ARE CLIMATE CHANGE SENTINELS
New technologies for environmental monitoring.

Limiting CO2 emissions at sea

CLS confirmed as Major LRIT ASP
Download the PDF Following a call for tender, CLS is pleased to announce that EMSA has...

CLS helps Europe to enforce maritime emissions monitoring with the ESA Feasibility Study “STEAM”
Download the PDF CLS helps Europe to enforce maritime emissions monitoring with the ESA...