{"id":233640,"date":"2018-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/sargassum-service-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:09:32","slug":"sargassum-service-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/sargassum-service-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"CLS to develop an operational sargassum service in the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the consortium CLS-NBE has been awarded a project with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\">European Space Agency, ESA<\/a>, to implement an innovative EO (Earth Observation) service to monitor floating <strong>Sargassum<\/strong> algae in the Caribbean area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3985 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/logo_Esa_couleur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"98\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">Detecting Sargassum<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2011, huge sargassum mass strandings have occurred in the wider Caribbean region threatening marine life, affecting human health, impacting tourism and proving to be a costly nuisance for fishing &amp; aquaculture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: 900;\">Predicting impact of Sargassum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While local governments work diligently to remove Sargassum from local beaches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/cls-group\/\">CLS<\/a> is working on a new service for monitoring Sargassum masses at sea, and forecasting when and where they will arrive onshore, so local actors can plan accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/datastore.groupcls.com\/cls-esa-sargassum-service\/\">Read more about ESA Sargassum project: A synergy of optical sensors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Useful link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/telemetry.groupcls.com\/\">CLS Telemetry website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Caribbean area. &nbsp; Detecting Sargassum Since 2011, huge sargassum mass strandings have occurred in the wider Caribbean region threatening marine life, affecting human health, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-and-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234112,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233640\/revisions\/234112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}