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Thursday 2nd July at 4pm (Paris time - UTC+1) In the context of the seasonal Sargassum presence in the Caribbean

The ocean is the world's first heat concentrator. Measuring the temperature of our oceans is one of the key indicators

Sargassum seaweed is a scourge for health, fishing and the tourist economy in the Caribbean. Piling up on beaches and

Africa, like the rest of the world, is facing the Covid-19 pandemic. But African authorities and citizens are also having

70% of the plastic we use is not recycled. Much of this waste is washed into our oceans, from beaches,

Europe with its long coastlines, many peninsulas, marginal seas, gulfs and bays is closely interlocked with the ocean. In times

Launched ten years ago, the SMOS mission was designed to map soil moisture and ocean salinity. This satellite mission provides

The Caribbean region has suffered intensely from the sargassum crisis. Economists estimate the cost of sargassum clean-up efforts at 120

Since 2011, CLS has been working on an operational service using optical and radar satellite sensors to detect sargassum and

Sea level anomaly and absolute dynamic topography are important climate variables. CLS is proud to provide these data sets to

For nearly 40 years, satellites have provided continuous observations of the world’s oceans – in time and in space –

In 1997 the first homogeneous and user friendly Sea Level data set based on TP and ERS1 & 2 missions

CLS is proud to contribute key ocean data sets to Europe’s Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS). One example is

As sargassum seaweed continue to invade Caribbean coastlines in 2019, Météo France has chosen CLS and its partners’ sargassum detection

Many societal challenges listed in the UN Sustainable Development goals can be addressed by greater access to Earth Observations (EO)

Since April 1st, a group of 40+ users have been testing the Sargassum detection and monitoring service developed by CLS

A sargassum landing was reported off the Malecón area of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on May 17th. This

CLS has detected a massive sargassum mat using satellite sensors from European satellites Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-2 and U.S. satellites Aqua

The week of March 24th-29th 2019 has been a week of major importance for international ocean initiatives. From Monaco’s Ocean

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From September 24-29th, the international altimetry community meets in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores Archipelago, in Portugal for a triple

While super typhoon Mangkhut is heading towards southeast Asia threatening to make landfall, teams from IFREMER and CLS are monitoring

In 2018, the consortium CLS-NovaBlue Environment (NBE) has been awarded a project with the European Space Agency, ESA, to implement

KINÉIS, new major player in French NewSpace, launches the first European constellation of nanosatellites and democratizes access to global connectivity

Experts agree: 2017 is one the three warmest years on record in the past 200 years. Global ocean heat content

Since 26 July, all partners of the Odyssea project have access to the web platform. The first bricks were set

Continuous improvements in satellite sensor technology means that ever more advanced sensors are being loaded onto the latest generation of

The European organization Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), announces that Ocean Monitoring Indicators (OMIs), used to monitor the oceanic

The Odyssea project is a unique collaborative international project between all the countries with meditteranean coasts with 28 partners organizations

The fourth EO4wildlife Newsletter has just been released ! Read the last newsletter CLS is a partner of the European

What's new in the Datastore  The catalogue is frequently updated with new datasets. Here are the latest datasets added, and

The catalogue is frequently updated with new datasets. Here are the latest datasets added (free and restricted access), and one coming soon.

NextGEOSS is the next generation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. The H2020 NextGEOSS project, a European contribution

Typhoon Haima struck Philippines on Oct. 19, 2016. Typhoons (as they are called in the Western North Pacific), hurricanes (North Atlantic and Eastern

With Sentinel-3, CLS plays the guardian of the water Tuesday, 16th of February, 2016,  at 19h (UTC), the European satellite Sentinel-3

The main objective of the Swot satellite, is to meet the need for hydrological and oceanographic data.

This is the Chlorophyll content in the South Pacific on 2015/11/19 observed with the VIIRS instrument on-board Suomi NPP satellite.

Dispersal and Diving Adjustments of the Green Turtle Chelonia mydas in Response to Dynamic Environmental Conditions during Post-Nesting Migration In

Infrastructure Development of space oceanography in Indonesia INDESO is a scientific program coordinated by CLS that aims at supplying to the