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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...
FRANCE, TERRITORIA 2017 Gold Award for the City of Dax in the use of space applications with the collaboration of TRE Altamira
Gold Award for the City of Dax in the use of space applications. CLS, a subsidiary of the French space agency CNES, is therefore very proud of this distinction ! The city of Dax had a collaboration...
COP 23, the importance of space applications to assess global warming
COP23 helps to make progress on instruments for implementing decisions of the Paris Agreement, ratified 2 years ago by 169 countries. Recent climate events demonstrate the urgency of taking action. ...
New Supervisory Board for CLS
On Wednesday, August 9, the French Ministry of Armed Forces announced that President Emmanuel Macron appointed Joël Barre as General Delegate for Armament. Following this, Antoine Seillan, CNES’s...
CLS acquires SIRS and stakes out a position in the field of satellite observation and monitoring of continental land masses
CLS, the French satellite services provider, has announced the acquisition of SIRS (Systèmes d'Information à Référence Spatiale [Information systems for space-related purposes]), a French company...
CLS acquires SIRS and stakes out a position in the field of satellite observation and monitoring of continental land masses
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Space applications for the happiness of millions of annual holidaymakers
For the pleasure of the holidaymakers, CLS contributes during this summer to the great cleaning of the beaches. Space applications will allow during this summer to clean beaches and also to report...
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LAUNCH OF ARGOS for NEXT Generations
Download the PDF The satellite-based Internet of things (IoT) will be accessible everywhere, for a sustainable planet.
CLS, ready to take the challenge of Blue Growth
In a meeting organized with representatives of the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique, Nicolas Hulot, French Minister of Ecology, set blue economy targets in a key phrase: “We must accelerate” This event...
The RATP renews its confidence in TRE ALTAMIRA
TRE ALTAMIRA, the CLS Group subsidiary, continue to apply our expertise to support the RATP (the public operator for the transport of Paris) in their efforts to ensure greater safety and security...
Precursor of Maoxian Landslide Measured from Space
On 24 June 2017, a massive landslide hit a village in Maoxian county in Sichuan province, south-western China, destroying 40 homes and killing dozens of people (BBC news here). Authorities suggest...
CLS brochure 2017
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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 activities and the potential offered by space solutions. In the current context of digital transition, space...
NEXTGEOSS, a European data hub for the future GEOSS
The H2020 NextGEOSS project, a European contribution to GEOSS, will develop the next generation of European Earth Observation data broker where users can access data and deploy applications close to...
World Tuna Day – what can we do for tuna from space?
A world tuna day? Why ? The United Nations General Assembly, by consecrating 2 May "International Tuna Day", invites all Member States, United Nations agencies, other international and regional...
CLS and IDS join forces to enhance mines security
There are innumerable gold, tin, copper or manganese mines. The biggest open-pit mine in the world, in Australia, has a 13,000-strong workforce, covers an area of 12 square kilometers and is one...
Sentinel 2, a valuable tool in environmental studies
The implementation of optical images with other satellite data makes it possible to implement large-scale strategic plans Inland water observation Merged with the altimetry data, the Sentinel-2...
CLS keep an eye on the oceans
With nearly 20 years of expertise, CLS uses data from several satellites including sentinels to develop new solutions to protect the planet, its environment, its biodiversity and its inhabitants....
Sentinel 2-B, soon !
Sentinel-2A will be joined by its twin, the Sentinel-2B satellite on the night of March 6-7. These two satellites of optical imagers will ensure a revisit of the same site every 5 days. The Sentinel...
CLS acquires Woods Hole Group
CLS, the French satellite services provider, has announced the acquisition of the Woods Hole Group, an American company specialising in environmental, scientific, and engineering consulting. CLS is...
CLS America and Xplore Partner to Launch the Thorium X, The First Satellite Communications Rugged Tablet for Global Industries
The Intel®-powered Thorium X features an integrated Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) modem and flexible satellite antenna that significantly expands the reliability, speed, and cost-effectiveness of...
Fulcrum Maritime Systems joins CLS Group
CLS Group and Fulcrum Maritime Systems (FMS) joined forces at the end of 2016 to become a world-leading maritime surveillance service provider. CLS Group infrastructure and worldwide network, as...
CLS Mag “CELEBRATING 30 YEARS”
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San Francisco Millenium Tower: InSAR results by TRE ALTAMIRA
TRE ALTAMIRA, a CLS group company has processed 7 years of TerraSAR-X data to measure movement on and around the Millennium Tower. The 179 scenes of TerraSAR-X provided a highly precise historical...
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 at the Sea tech Week
From 10 to 14 October 2016, 10th edition of Sea Tech Week Sea Tech Week, international marine science and technology week, brings to the city of Brest (France) every two years leading international...
Brest 2016 : “Oceans and climate”
Several actors of Quai des Sciences in Brest (france), including CLS, have been decided this year to promote the role of the ocean on climate. Climate issues are opening broad scientific and...