Dec 4, 2024 | Maritime Security, Race
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 patterns. Navigating the roaring forties and howling fifties in the...
Dec 4, 2024 | Maritime Security, Press, Race
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 for the skippers: out of 200 adventurers who have dared to...
Jan 27, 2023 | Maritime Security, Race
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 exclusion zone which defines, on the basis of the expertise of our satellite...
Dec 3, 2020 | Maritime Security, Press, Race
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 (European Space Agency) to detect icebergs threatening the skippers’...
Dec 1, 2020 | Maritime Security, Meet the team, Race
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, who every day helps improve the safety of the race. First of...
Nov 8, 2020 | Maritime Security, Race
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. Our mission is to create innovative space-based solutions to...
