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[WEBINAR] SAMtool: observing and predicting Sargassum landings in the Tropical Atlantic thanks to satellites
View More26 June 2020Thursday 2nd July at 4pm (Paris time - UTC+1) In the context of the seasonal Sargassum presence in the Caribbean -
How does EUMETSAT measure ocean temperature?
View More29 May 2020The ocean is the world's first heat concentrator. Measuring the temperature of our oceans is one of the key indicators -
Monitoring Sargassum: Europe moves into operational mode
View More25 May 2020Sargassum seaweed is a scourge for health, fishing and the tourist economy in the Caribbean. Piling up on beaches and
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Locust invasion: EO helping farmers
View More14 May 2020Africa, like the rest of the world, is facing the Covid-19 pandemic. But African authorities and citizens are also having
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Plastic Pollution – Science to the Rescue
View More7 April 202070% of the plastic we use is not recycled. Much of this waste is washed into our oceans, from beaches, -
EuroSea: A new EU project to gather more knowledge for a sustainable use of the ocean
View More29 November 2019Europe with its long coastlines, many peninsulas, marginal seas, gulfs and bays is closely interlocked with the ocean. In times
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Measuring sea surface salinity with Europe’s SMOS satellite
View More12 November 2019Launched ten years ago, the SMOS mission was designed to map soil moisture and ocean salinity. This satellite mission provides
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Sargassum monitored from space: A regional solution for the sargassum crisis
View More22 October 2019The Caribbean region has suffered intensely from the sargassum crisis. Economists estimate the cost of sargassum clean-up efforts at 120 -
Learn more about our satellite-based sargassum monitoring solution at Sarg’Expo
View More17 October 2019Since 2011, CLS has been working on an operational service using optical and radar satellite sensors to detect sargassum and
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Improving sea level anomaly and absolute dynamic topography data sets
View More23 September 2019Sea level anomaly and absolute dynamic topography are important climate variables. CLS is proud to provide these data sets to
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The yin and yang: Satellite and in-situ observations to monitor our oceans
View More4 September 2019For nearly 40 years, satellites have provided continuous observations of the world’s oceans – in time and in space –
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Celebrating 25 years of high quality, multi-mission altimetry Sea Level products
View More3 September 2019In 1997 the first homogeneous and user friendly Sea Level data set based on TP and ERS1 & 2 missions
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Progress in global and regional sea level maps
View More28 August 2019CLS is proud to contribute key ocean data sets to Europe’s Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS). One example is
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Météo France chooses CLS with its partners I-sea and NBE to provide sargassum detection services in the French Antilles
View More4 July 2019As sargassum seaweed continue to invade Caribbean coastlines in 2019, Météo France has chosen CLS and its partners’ sargassum detection
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CLS begins developments for oceanic drift models on NextGEOSS datahub
View More2 July 2019Many societal challenges listed in the UN Sustainable Development goals can be addressed by greater access to Earth Observations (EO)
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Validating Sargassum forecasts with Sentinel-2 data
View More11 June 2019Since April 1st, a group of 40+ users have been testing the Sargassum detection and monitoring service developed by CLS
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CLS drift model predicts sargassum landing in Dominican Republic
View More27 May 2019A sargassum landing was reported off the Malecón area of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on May 17th. This
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Monitoring a massive sargassum mat in the Atlantic Ocean
View More27 May 2019CLS has detected a massive sargassum mat using satellite sensors from European satellites Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-2 and U.S. satellites Aqua
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A major week for international ocean initiatives
View More29 March 2019The 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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CLS Operational Sargassum Monitoring Service ready for end-users
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CLS at 25 years of progress in radar altimetry
View More25 September 2018From September 24-29th, the international altimetry community meets in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores Archipelago, in Portugal for a triple
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Monitoring typhoon Mangkhut from space
View More14 September 2018While super typhoon Mangkhut is heading towards southeast Asia threatening to make landfall, teams from IFREMER and CLS are monitoring
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CLS wins contract with ESA to develop an operational Sargassum service in the Caribbean
View More13 September 2018In 2018, the consortium CLS-NovaBlue Environment (NBE) has been awarded a project with the European Space Agency, ESA, to implement
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Kineis, a unique constellation
View More10 September 2018KINÉIS, new major player in French NewSpace, launches the first European constellation of nanosatellites and democratizes access to global connectivity
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CLS contributes to World Meteorological Organization’s state of the climate report
View More10 August 2018Experts agree: 2017 is one the three warmest years on record in the past 200 years. Global ocean heat content
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ODYSSEA, increasing use of Metoc and In Situ data supporting decision making
View More8 August 2018Since 26 July, all partners of the Odyssea project have access to the web platform. The first bricks were set -
A new generation of surface drifters to calibrate satellite sensors
View More28 June 2018Continuous improvements in satellite sensor technology means that ever more advanced sensors are being loaded onto the latest generation of
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Copernicus publishes Ocean Monitoring Indicators data for the last 25 years
View More23 March 2018The European organization Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), announces that Ocean Monitoring Indicators (OMIs), used to monitor the oceanic
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ODYSSEA Project : integrated platform to observe the Mediterranean sea
View More6 March 2018The Odyssea project is a unique collaborative international project between all the countries with meditteranean coasts with 28 partners organizations
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EO4Wildlife : a Platform for wildlife monitoring integrating Copernicus and ARGOS data
View More22 January 2018The fourth EO4wildlife Newsletter has just been released ! Read the last newsletter CLS is a partner of the European
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