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 safety of major ocean races through its expertise in detecting icebergs from space and analyzing their drift...
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 unassisted sailing race around the world. Dubbed the "Everest of the Seas," this legendary race offers no respite...
CLS and Iceberg Detection from Space
Vendée Globe, Jules Verne Trophy, Barcelona ; the management of the biggest offshore races have trusted CLS to detect ice threatening the competitors’ route and to build together the famous...
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 technologies and satellites designed and deployed by CNES (French National Center for Space Studies) and ESA...
Position: iceberg hunter
As the Southern ocean becomes the daily life of the competitors in the leading pack of the Vendée Globe, the iceberg is the ultimate danger to avoid. Meeting with Jimmy Viard, radar analyst at CLS,...
Vendée Globe 2020: The race has started!
CLS is a global company and pioneer provider of monitoring and surveillance solutions for the Earth, created in 1986. We are subsidiary of the French Space Agency (CNES) and CNP, an investment firm....
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 running left from Brest (France) across the Atlantic Ocean towards Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and then Cape Town...
Jules Verne Trophy: CLS detects dangerous icebergs via satellite
The Jules Verne trophy is an incredible circumnavigation speed challenge, for crewed vessels, without stopovers. Contestants must cross the starting line between Créac’h lighthouse on Ushant Island...
The Vendée Globe a race under high satellite surveillance.
The Vendée Globe is the only solo, non-stop, without assistance sailboat race around the world. Nicknamed “Everest of seas”, only 71 sailors under 138 managed to reach the fish line since its...
CLS, historical partner of the Route du Rhum race, equips all competitors with beacons
For 30 years, CLS and Pen Duick have cooperated, equipping skippers with several generations of ARGOS beacons. To improve the safety of the skippers and provide organizers with real-time positioning services, CLS began to equip sailing vessels with March YI beacons: light, waterproof and shockproof, with autonomy of 110 days.