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5th anniversary of the UN global commitments for environment
When CLS was founded in 1986, nobody was talking about corporate social responsibility. However, even then the solutions developed by CLS were important in improving the way we handled environmental...
First Argos signal: the Angels adventure continues successfully
The new generation of Argos instrument has just received its very first signal, the ANGELS adventure continues successfully. The very first message comes from an Argos beacon fitted to a Japanese...
ANGELS, successful launch, the metamorphosis of the ARGOS system is on its way
On December 18, Angels, the first industrial nanosatellite developed by CNES and HEMERIA, was launched from the French space base in Kourou. It embarked an Argos payload and began the metamorphosis...
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 water off the coast of Brittany. It had been in trouble since the day before due to a technical failure....
Patrick Lehodey of CLS awarded the ‘Star of Europe’ Award for his work on the marine ecosystem of the Southern Ocean
Download the PDF On December 10 in Paris, Patrick Lehodey, head of the Marine Ecosystems Modelling team at CLS, was awarded the 2019 Étoiles de l'Europe prize. The ceremony will be held at the Musée...
France acquires automatic 3D geospatial information capability with AI4GEO
Download the PDF Tuesday 10 December – The AI4GEO project to develop an automatic solution for producing 3D geospatial information, in which €30 million is to be invested over four years, is...
COP25 Climate & biodiversity: two linked fates
The impact of climate change on biodiversity contributes to the 6th mass extinction. How can we protect the fauna of our planet? Study, understand and act accordingly to limit human impact that is...
Mean sea level: a key indicator of global warming established in Toulouse
Understanding climate mechanisms means first of all understanding the ocean. But how can we learn more about this immense maritime territory? Over the last 30 years, observation systems for the...
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 years, such as reducing oil pollution in European waters by half; combating illegal fishing, drug trafficking,...
CLS sale process advances as CNP enters into exclusivity
Download the PDF CNES (France’s national space agency), Ardian (a leading private investment house), and IFREMER (France’s research Institute for the exploitation of the sea), announce the signature...
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...
Sargassum monitored from space: A regional solution for the sargassum problem
Download the PDF The Caribbean region has suffered intensely from the sargassum crisis. Economists estimate the cost of sargassum clean-up efforts at 120 million USD in 2018 alone, and fewer...
CLS proposes a regional solution to the sargassum crisis using space-based technology
Nearly 10 years ago, CLS began working on an operational solution to the sargassum problem using optical and radar satellite sensors to detect sargassum and predict their drift. As the crisis has...
Greater Lyon chooses SIRS, a CLS subsidiary, to map its green spaces
Download the PDF Summer 2019 in France was the third hottest on record since 1900. Green spaces play a key role in keeping local temperatures down and residents comfortable. But what’s the best way...
Improving hurricane forecasting and emergency management
Warmer oceans tend to lead to stronger storms, and Hurricane Dorian, the first major hurricane of the 2019 season, which hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on September 1st, 2019, seemed destined...
Climate change and urban management: CLS Group helps Grand Lyon identify its green corridors
Summer of 2019 was one of the three hottest summers on record in France since 1900. French cities, which lack green space and vegetation, are warmer than the surrounding countryside. Worried about...
Europe’s satellites focus on forest fires in the Amazon
International attention has focused on massive forest fires that are currently affecting the Amazon in South America. In 2019, more than 70.000 fires have been registered in Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay...
Global hunger is on the rise. CLS helps humanitarian agencies spend less on logistics and more on their aid programs
821.6 million people suffered from hunger in 2018. This dramatic figure has now increased for the third year in a row, according to the annual report published on Monday by several UN organizations....
CLS Group contributes to the sustainable management of French forests
Forests are essential to the health and well-being of our planet. A source of oxygen, they purify the air we breathe, provide homes to three fourths of terrestrial biodiversity and help us withstand...
Kinéis, CLS’s subsidiary, is officially launching its industrial program and announces strategic partnerships with experts in the Internet of Things
Billions of Connected Objects by 2030 - How? By 2030, several tens of billions of objects will be connected. Nevertheless, today, 90% of the planet is unconnected or connected at often prohibitive...
Innovative solution for remote applications with THORIUM-X
CLS, satellite-services provider for environmental monitoring, sustainable management of fisheries, and maritime security, has developed a unique Wi-Fi, 4G, satellite-connected rugged tablet called...
CLS is committed to a sustainable planet and signs the SICOVAL corporate climate charter alongside local companies
Sicoval has drawn up a 2019-2024 Territorial Air Energy Climate Plan which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2050, develop renewable energies, improve air quality, move towards...
CLS, observing, understanding and protecting the world’s oceans
The ocean is one of the key components of the Earth system, influencing our weather, and acting as a key climate regulator. Understanding our seas and oceans is therefore crucial for the future of...
International Day for the Fight Against IUU Fishing
FAO has declared June 5, 2019 as the International Day for the Fight against Illegal Fishing. CLS from space fights these environmental crimes on a daily basis. Today, marine resources are too often...
CLIMATE CHANGE: CLS CONTRIBUTES TO EUROPEAN STATE OF THE CLIMATE REPORT
It’s a fact: 2018 was one of the three warmest years on record for Europe. This is what the recently published European State of the Climate Report , compiled by the Copernicus Climate Change...
CLS will attend Ocean Business, the hands on ocean technology exhibition
CLS is deeply involved in understanding and protecting the ocean. For the past 30 years, our mission has been to provide high quality satellite-based services to support operational oceanography....
What European satellites reveal about Australia’s tropical cyclones
In March 2019, twin cyclones hit Australia. Tropical cyclone Trevor made landfall on Australia’s northern coast on March 23rd, bringing torrential rains and winds of up to 230km/h. Just two days...
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 ship-owner lists 365 containers, 45 of which are listed as containing hazardous substances and just over 2000...
CLS Operational Sargassum Monitoring Service soon ready for end-users
The 2019 Sargassum season is off to an early start. The first rafts arrived on the beaches of the Caribbean Islands, including Barbados, Martinique and Guadeloupe in January, announcing yet another...
Novacom Services integrates CLS, its parent company
A Successful Merger In 2018, CLS worked on the integration of its subsidiary NOVACOM SERVICES, a merger that took effect at the beginning of 2019. This merger is about continuity, shared strategy...
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 vessels, without stopovers. Contestants must cross the starting line between Créac’h lighthouse on Ushant Island...
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 presented until Sunday 16th. This great gathering of the nautical is the inevitable event of the maritime...
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 presence of the deputy of French Polynesia. 1st day of the meeting Lunch at the table of the Chief of the...
CLS launches the challenge “Space IoT technology for the oceans”
CLS is getting closer and closer to the sea and is establishing itself in the south of Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur region. In this context, the company offers SMEs the opportunity to use satellite...
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. Vincent Kerbaol, CLS Brest, will speak in a workshop scheduled on Wednesday 28 November from 11:00 to 12:15:...
European Users Conference on Argos Wildlife
The European Users Conference on Argos Wildlife will be held in Toulouse, France, on 21 and 22 November 2018. During this conference, various scientists using the Argos system in their research will...
Argos-3 instrument successfully activated on EUMETSAT’s Metop-C satellite
On 16 November 2018, EUMETSAT's control centre (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) successfully activated the Argos-3 instrument on the Metop-C satellite. The...
ARGOS payloads in the Metop-C satellite launched on the night of November 6
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...
CLS supports the Franco-Chinese CFOSAT mission to have a better understanding of the 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...
CLS, a major player for the 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...
Monitoring the Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Southeast Asia
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...
CLS to develop an operational sargassum service in the Caribbean
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...
Kinéis, a unique constellation
KINÉIS, new major player in French NewSpace, launches the first European constellation of nanosatellites and democratizes access to global connectivity (IoT). With the support of CNES, CLS: Collecte...
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 greater responsiveness during operations at sea. Since the 2000s, CLS satellite services operator and...
ESOF Space Tour : Climate from Space
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...
Conclusion of the 3rd edition of ActInSpace
During the Toulouse Space Show, the 26th and 27th of June took place the national and international finals of the ActInSpace hackathon. This competition organized by CNES, ESA and ESA BIC France was...
Every day should be Oceans Day
THE OCEAN: KEY TO OUR CLIMATE Ocean is the planet’s main carbon pump and has the largest capacity for storing heat. Understanding climate mechanisms primarily means understanding the ocean...
World Environment Day 2018 : CLS support the association Expédition 7e Continent
Today June 5, 2018 is the World Environment Day. The theme changes every year, and in 2018 the UN's choice was to draw public attention to the fight against plastic pollution. The purpose of this...
Back on the first phase of ActInSpace on May 25 & 26
Last weekend was the 2018 edition of the ActInSpace hackathon. This event organized by CNES allows all those who wish to present their ideas based on space technologies. For this contest, 80...
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 those who flee for their lives. In two years, some 28,000 people have been rescued, of whom 1/3 are minors....
EO4 wildlife – Platform for wildlife monitoring integrating Copernicus and Argos data
In November 2017, a new version of the EO4wildlife platform was released to all partners. This version provide a wide new set of features such as access to new datasets, integration of new...
ActInSpace 2018 : CLS’ challenges
ActInSpace is an innovation contest (Hackathon) initiated by the French Space Agency (CNES) uniting over 60 cities across 5 continents. This international event aims to bring together entrepreneurs,...
Copernicus publishes Ocean Monitoring Indicators data for the last 25 years
The European organization Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), announces that Ocean Monitoring Indicators (OMIs), used to monitor the oceanic trends in line with climate change,...
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 the space-based technologies to fight effectively against the maritime pollutions. All relevant French...
Which technologies for the fight against marine pollution ?
CLS organizes with the Cluster Maritime Français a breakfast of exchanges on the stakes and the contributions of the space-based technologies to fight effectively against...
CLS, a culture of innovation
CLS has as mission to monitor human activities as well as the biological and physical rhythm of oceans, seas and rivers. For public or private organisations, we analyse data coming from drones...
Stop Illegal Fishing by 2020: A Crucial Challenge. There are solutions !
Today, marine resources are often overexploited (overfishing, illegal, unregulated, unreported fishing) and threatened by pollution and global warming. Scientists believe that certain stocks such as...
Merger of Woods Hole Group, CLS America and Horizon Marine
We are proud to announce the merger of WOODS HOLE GROUP, CLS AMERICA and HORIZON MARINE. On January 1, 2018, CLS officially merged its US-based entities: CLS America, Horizon Marine and Woods Hole...
CLS, signatory to the United Nations Global Compact
CLS was founded in 1986 and its mission ever since has been to protect people and the planet. CLS strives each day to move forward and innovate for the benefit of humanity and our environment. The...