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Unlocking Amazon’s Secrets: CLS at the Forefront of Discovery
The Amazon is a gigantic river, the most powerful in the world. It’s responsible for 20% of the freshwater running into the ocean and is the largest contributor of fluvial sediments into the oceans....
ODD Flag Day: Happy Anniversary to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Eight years have passed since the adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations. Their objective is clear and resolute: to save the planet. As the driving force...
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 signature of three major contracts with the governments of India, Sri Lanka and Thailand for the supply of its...
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 sustainable planet and a leading player in maritime safety, is stepping up to help protect Sri Lanka’s waters with 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 the hundreds of vessels blocked at the 2 gates of the Panama canal. ESA Copyright. Areas framed in red...
ULYSSE Project: A Strategic Response to France’s Zero Net Land Take (ZNLT) Law
Zero Net Land Take (ZNLT) is a goal set for 2050 in France's "Climate and Resilience" law of August 24, 2021. It calls for a 50% reduction in the rate of artificialization and consumption of...
Protecting Albatrosses From Space
Today is World Albatross Day, a perfect opportunity to highlight the incredible role played by CLS, the historical operator of the Argos satellite system, now provider of the environmental Argos...
Desertification: the space, a tool to resilience
Desertification and land degradation are very serious challenges to humanity’s ability to survive in many areas of the world. They lead to hunger and poverty, unemployment, forced migration, and...
CLS, Data Partner for Our Planet Ocean
Today it’s the World Ocean Day, a day to remember us that the ocean covers over 70% of our planet. It is our life source, supporting humanity’s sustenance and that of every other organism on earth....
CLS Connecting the Sea Surface Salinity Network (SNO SSS)
We met up with Gaël Alory, a lecturer and research scientist in ocean dynamics at the LEGOS space geophysics and oceanography research laboratory who is leading the SNO SSS program. He details the...
New step for the Indonesian Maritime Meteorological System (MMS1) delivered by CLS and its partners : High Performance Computing is now operational at BMKG HQ
To meet Indonesia’s ambitions to develop and secure the maritime economy of the country gathering 17,000 islands, the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) called on...
High Seas Treaty: UN Makes Historic Deal to Protect International Waters
“The ship has reached the shore,” conference chair Rena Lee announced at UN headquarters in New York shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, to a round of applause from delegates. The first...
International Women’s Day: “Talent is gender-neutral”
Since 1946, the principle of gender equality is inscribed in the French constitution. The law guarantees women the same rights as men in all walks of life, but despite a large corpus of legislation...
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...
Celebrations of the success of Argos-4
This Thursday, January 19, 2023, space experts were gathered at CLS to celebrate the successful launches of Gazelle last September and OceanSat-3 last November. Among them CLS experts were extremely...
SWOT: Count-down to launch
For nearly a decade engineers at the French Space Agency, NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and the UK Space Agency have been designing and building a satellite set to be a game-changer for hydrology...
COP 27: Using Space to adapt to climate change
Today marks the start of COP27. Held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention...
Smart land management: CLS a partner of Martinique provides a tool to manage its agricultural lands
Download the PDF Today, an estimated 821 million people on Earth are undernourished. The current agricultural system is under pressure from population growth and climate change. The climate is...
Sightsavers Chooses HUMANAV for its Humanitarian Fleet Tracking
International NGO Sightsavers has chosen CLS’s HUMANAV system for the tracking and management of its humanitarian fleets, as part of its global push to ensure the safety and security of its...
New synergies within CLS Group are opening up a world of possibilities
Interview with Capucine Martin, Sales Director at CLS Group’s Fleet Management Business Unit Sales Director at CLS Group’s Fleet Management Business Unit since 2020, Capucine Martin has instilled a...
CLS and its partners welcomed the members of a BMKG delegation for a special steering committee
On November 23, 2020, CLS signed an historic contract with the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) for a project named MMS for Maritime Meteorological System aiming...
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 gathering 17,000 islands, the BKMG (Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics) called on...
Smart cities: Satellite solutions for a sustainable future
More than half the world’s population live in urban areas, and this will continue to increase. This means that adaptation to climate change depends centrally on what is done in urban centers. City...
CLS, Space sentinels for endangered species
According to a recent study, the sixth mass extinction of wildlife on Earth is accelerating with more than 500 species of land animals currently on the brink of extinction and likely to be lost...
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 September 2021. His specialty? Aeronautics, and drones specifically This is what attracted Jim to CLS, as...
The Indonesian challenges
Our editorial teams interviewed Jean-Baptiste Voisin, Director of PTCLS Argos Indonesia on the challenges facing the country and the place of space and data technologies to address them. How...
Offshore Wind: New contract for French floating wind with the French Ministry of Ecological Transition
CLS is proud to announce the signature of a new contract for the South of Brittany bidding zone (AO5) with the French Ministry of Ecological Transition's Directorate General for Energy and Climate...
Offshore wind turbine off Saint-Nazaire: A first in France
It has made a lot of noise in the press. A symbol, last straight line for this offshore wind farm which will count 80 wind turbines and must be put in service at the end of 2022. This symbolic...
NAGIS Project in Vietnam
With the Directorate of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, CLS is performing a feasibility study “NAGIS-FASEP” (National Aquaculture Geographic Information...
Navdroid tablet: The essential tool for digital waste collection
The mobile tablet for refuse collectors in the field, Navdroid improves route management and simplifies everyday tasks. Digitizing waste management reduces the number of collection rounds by 30%,...
World IoT Day: IoT working for our planet
Did you know that CLS was tracking satellite-connected objects before the invention of GPS? CLS and the French space agency CNES, with the Argos satellite system, in fact invented the IoT—the...
EUMETSAT & CLS, committed to better understanding weather systems
The strength and frequency of extreme weather events has grown due to climate change: floods, cyclones, storms, typhoons, but also droughts are more and more devastating. So, it comes as no surprise...
First Equipment Deployments in the MMS Project
To meet Indonesia’s ambitions to develop and secure the maritime economy of the country gathering 17,000 islands, the BKMG (Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics) called on...
The Earth’s forests are suffering: Alarming rates in many countries
“Silent forest, pleasant solitude, how I love to walk through your shadows oft ignored! In your dark paths, dreaming as I wander, I feel free of all worries. Dear to my heart! I think I glimpse the...
World Water Day: The solution will come from the skies
Falls run dry We all recall the terrible images released at the end of 2019, showing the Victoria Falls almost dry. Such images bear witness to the persistent drought in recent years in some areas,...
How is satellite data helping the environment?
In a world where the changing environment and our impact is discussed, where forests and lands are burning, where global warming is raging, where pollution and the plundering of our natural...
IPCC’s Second Report: Innovative space-based solutions to adapt to climate change
Last year, the first of three reports issued as part of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, announced a code red for humanity and warned that human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented...
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 calm and composed exterior, there’s a sense of innate determination and strength of character. Beneath 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 delegation. French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France, comprises more than 100 islands in the South...
Women in Science: Meet two Altimetry Experts at EUMETSAT & CLS
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly declared the 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the aim to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and...
One Ocean Summit: 55 million traditional fishermen on the scales
Download the PDF Small-scale fisheries sustain more than 90% of the world's fishermen. It's estimated that traditional fishing accounts for some 50% of global fish catches. Until now, there were no...
Jean-Louis Etienne, an explorer accompanied from space
On May 11, 1986, Jean-Louis Etienne, doctor, and French explorer was the first man to reach the North Pole alone by sled. This achievement was officially recognized by CLS thanks to the Argos beacon...
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 surveillance and search and rescue missions in the open ocean. Zurich, Switzerland and Toulouse, France, 1...
CLS becomes a Company with a mission
At CLS, every day we measure human impact on our Planet & on us, its citizens. Many of you are on the front line and see these impacts: rising average sea levels, drop in biodiversity,...
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 sensors. The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has awarded a new contract to CLS, a French Space...
CLS acquires Meteodyn and takes the lead as a key partner in the ecological transition of the energy sector
CLS, a subsidiary of CNES (French Space Agency) and CNP (an investment company), a provider of satellite solutions, has announced the acquisition of Meteodyn, a company specialized in wind...
The Grand Paris Express Project monitors from Space by Tre Altamira, a CLS subsidiary
What is the relationship between the construction of Lima’s or Barcelona’s subway, the extension of a new metro in Los Angeles or the extension of the metro in Sydney? All of these major projects...
Oil Spill in California: What can we see from Space?
Yesterday, the southern California beaches were affected by a massive oil spill, causing large pollution off the coast. The oil spill originated from a broken pipeline and spread more than half a...
Wind Energy: The French Ministry of Ecological Transition grants its confidence to CLS
CLS is proud to announce the completion of an offshore wind energy deliverability study for the AO4 Normandy project on behalf of the French Ministry of Ecological Transition’s Directorate General...
Key step forward for the Argos metamorphosis: Rocket Lab chosen to launch constellation of 25 nanosatellites
As you may know, pioneer in providing solutions to monitor the Earth, CLS, created its subsidiary Kinéis in 2018 with one mission: transform the Argos system and deploy an unparalleled connectivity...
European Heritage Days: Space, vigil of the European historical heritage
Eternal Rome... What if we suggested that you revisit these two words from space, in a new light? As the European Heritage Days open the doors of remarkable monuments for a weekend, CLS associates...
Innovation – World Conservation Congress: CLS announces it is putting AI, BIG DATA and an XXL Space system at the service of biodiversity
Download the PDF On the 3rd of September, France will open the doors of the World Conservation Congress held in Marseille. Thousands of speakers, NGOs, national and international agencies are...
CLS on the fire front
After Turkey, the Balkan region, Greece and the Algarve in Portugal, it is now France's turn to be threatened by fire. The fire that has affected the Var region since Monday 16 August is the most...
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 version of the AR5 drone, with eight-person life rafts that can be dropped to people in distress. CLS, a...
CLS will be present at the IUCN World Congress in September in Marseille
CLS supports IUCN's goal: Protect Biodiversity & the Environment The IUCN congress will be held in Marseille between the 3rd and 11th September with one goal: unite more than 10 000 experts from...
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Mangrove Monitoring
Several years agos, CLS delivered to the Indonesian government INDESO a complete center for sustainably manage indonesian marine resources and coastal natural richness. In this context one of the...
Gabon, World Leader in the Management of its Artisanal Fisheries, relies on CLS
Gabon's Minister of Fisheries, Agriculture and Food Security, Biendi Maganga-Moussavou, together with the Ministers of Defense Michaël Moussa Adamo and Environment Lee White, launched on July 2nd,...
CLS helps raise awareness on coastal flood risks along European coasts from Space
Download the PDF Climate Change, sea level rising, and frequent extreme storm surges are increasing the risks of coastal flooding and putting the lives of millions of people at risk. In 2020, Europe...
Sargasso Seaweed in Sight
Download the PDF Local stakeholders, citizens and tourists missing white sandy beaches can now consult the evolution of these seaweed mats in the Caribbean online. Sargasso mats have serious impacts...
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 images received, processed and studied by CLS analysts, experts in pollution response. This...