{"id":233652,"date":"2019-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/jules-verne-trophy-cls-detects-dangerous-icebergs-via-satellite\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:46:01","slug":"jules-verne-trophy-cls-detects-dangerous-icebergs-via-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/jules-verne-trophy-cls-detects-dangerous-icebergs-via-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Jules Verne Trophy: CLS detects dangerous icebergs via satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Jules Verne trophy<\/a> is an incredible circumnavigation speed challenge, for crewed vessels, without stopovers. Contestants must cross the starting line between Cr\u00e9ac\u2019h lighthouse on Ushant Island and Lizard Lighthouse and travel around the world leaving the capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn to port. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a crazy adventure for extraordinary navigators, imagined one evening in 1985, in homage to Jules Verne\u2019s character, Phileas Fogg. Maxi SPINDRIFT-2, skippered by Yann Guichard, crossed the starting line on Wednesday, January 16th<\/sup>, to attempt a new record.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Spindrift-2 team works with CLS, Collecte Localisation Satellites, subsidiary of CNES, to help the team avoid icebergs along its route.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CLS\u2019s ice detection expertise to help Spindrift attain the Trophy<\/h2>\n
Combining world-renowned expertise in satellite radar image processing with 20 years\u2019 experience in altimetry data (to measure sea surface height), as well as operational ocean current forecasting skills, CLS is able to detect icebergs and forecast their drift<\/a>.<\/div>\n
In the southern Oceans, CLS will therefore identify dangerous zones and detect icebergs that could threaten Spindrift-2\u2019s course in order to avoid a collision.<\/div>\n
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Which satellites are used to detect icebergs?<\/h2>\n
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To detect icebergs and forecast their drift, CLS experts use data from up to ten different satellites, including Jason-3 and Sentinel-3, radar imagery from the European Space Agency (ESA)\u2019s Sentinel-1 satellite and RADARSAT-2, as well as CLS\u2019s specialized drift model.<\/p>\n

VIGISAT, located near Brest, is CLS\u2019s ground station for receiving and processing satellite radar data and it is the only civilian radar reception station in France. VIGISAT\u2019s team of analysts will help Spindrift-2\u2019s crew during this round the world race. Its ice experts have been working closely with the Spindrift team since August 2018 to prepare the race, programming the most relevant radar acquisitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Why use satellites?<\/h2>\n
Radar satellites are the only technology able to monitor vast icy territories of the South Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific Oceans. Satellite radar are also able to obtain observations of large icebergs despite cloud cover or night time. CLS has more than 15 years experience in analysis and interpretation of high-resolution satellite images.<\/div>\n

24\/7 operations<\/h2>\n

CLS\u2019s team is available 24\/7. CLS receives data from 15 satellite missions in Brest and its operational data center in Toulouse.<\/p>\n

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The Jules Verne trophy is an incredible circumnavigation speed challenge, for crewed vessels, without stopovers. Contestants must cross the starting line between Cr\u00e9ac\u2019h lighthouse on Ushant Island and Lizard Lighthouse and travel around the world leaving the capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn to port. It\u2019s a crazy adventure for extraordinary navigators, imagined one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

\n\nThe Jules Verne trophy<\/a> is an incredible circumnavigation speed challenge, for crewed vessels, without stopovers. Contestants must cross the starting line between Cr\u00e9ac\u2019h lighthouse on Ushant Island and Lizard Lighthouse and travel around the world leaving the capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn to port. It\u2019s a crazy adventure for extraordinary navigators, imagined one evening in 1985, in homage to Jules Verne\u2019s character, Phileas Fogg. Maxi SPINDRIFT-2, skippered by Yann Guichard, crossed the starting line on Wednesday, January 16th<\/sup>, to attempt a new record. The Spindrift-2 team works with CLS, Collecte Localisation Satellites, subsidiary of CNES, to help the team avoid icebergs along its route.<\/strong>\n\n<\/div>\n
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CLS\u2019s ice detection expertise to help Spindrift attain the Trophy<\/h3>\n
Combining world-renowned expertise in satellite radar image processing with 20 years\u2019 experience in altimetry data (to measure sea surface height), as well as operational ocean current forecasting skills, CLS is able to detect icebergs and forecast their drift<\/a>. In the southern Oceans, CLS will therefore identify dangerous zones and detect icebergs that could threaten Spindrift-2\u2019s course in order to avoid a collision.<\/div>\n
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Which satellites are used to detect icebergs?<\/h3>\n
\n\nTo detect icebergs and forecast their drift, CLS experts use data from up to ten different satellites, including Jason-3 and Sentinel-3, radar imagery from the European Space Agency (ESA)\u2019s Sentinel-1 satellite and RADARSAT-2, as well as CLS\u2019s specialized drift model.\n\nVIGISAT, located near Brest, is CLS\u2019s ground station for receiving and processing satellite radar data and it is the only civilian radar reception station in France. VIGISAT\u2019s team of analysts will help Spindrift-2\u2019s crew during this round the world race. Its ice experts have been working closely with the Spindrift<\/a> team since August 2018 to prepare the race, programming the most relevant radar acquisitions.\n\n<\/div>\n

Why use satellites?<\/h3>\n
Radar satellites are the only technology able to monitor vast icy territories of the South Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific Oceans. Satellite radar are also able to obtain observations of large icebergs despite cloud cover or night time. CLS has more than 15 years experience in analysis and interpretation of high-resolution satellite images.<\/div>\n

24\/7 operations<\/h3>\nCLS\u2019s team is available 24\/7. CLS receives data from 15 satellite missions in Brest and its operational data center in Toulouse.","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,88,276,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-course","category-maritime-security","category-race-en","category-securite-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233652","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=233652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247451,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233652\/revisions\/247451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}