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When Deep Diving Seals Help us to Observe Rapidly Changing of Polar Oceans
At the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW), Christophe Guinet's presentation will focus on how polar seals are used to collect in-situ measurements of temperature, salinity,...
Sunfish, a Giant Mysterious Animal in our Oceans
Fisheries management is a touchy question all around the world. The many species exploited require quotas, seasonal or regional limitations on fishing in order to maintain stocks at renewable...
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Arctic Fox
The Argos satellite telemetry system made it possible for a team of researchers led by Dominique Berteaux from the University of Québec in Rimouski to better understand the behavior of the...
The Future of Argos Satellite Telemetry is Kinéis
For nearly 40 years, the international space agencies that manage the Argos system have been committed to technological advancements. Capitalizing on this long experience in state-of-the-art,...
Lesser Kestrels Back in Bulgaria
Endangered species can be locally so. The Lesser Kestrel, a small falcon, was all but extinct in Bulgaria. A project enabled to reintroduce the prey bird in this country, with satellite tagging and...
Whale Sharks, Big Friendly Giants of the Ocean
Whale sharks are about the opposite of your archetypal shark. These gentle giants, the biggest fish in Earth’s oceans, are living on a steady diet of plankton (with the addition of small crustacean,...
On the Track of the Polar Bears
Polar bears live in a challenging environment for human beings, and getting close to them is not without dangers. Wildlife tracking using Argos PTTs has thus enabled us to know more about them. The...
Two Tags on a Shark: A World First
The french association APECS (Association for the Study and Conservation of Selachians) is a Brest association dedicated to the study and conservation of sharks and rays. The members of this...
News about the Rana turtle
Do you remember Rana? This is the turtle collected and treated for four years by the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. After his release and the few adventures to find the camera that filmed his first...
Scolopax Rusticola Without Frontiers
The Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola, is a very special bird as it is crepuscular. During the day, it rests in places where there is not much light. Thus, this species was not very well known...
The Adventure of the Turtle Named Rana and her Camera
Around the 21st of June, as part of an action led by the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, Robert Calcagno, Damien Chevalier & Olivier Brunel released a sea turtle named Rana who had been...
Eels’ Travel in the Mediterranean Tracked Thanks to Argos & Goniometer
Eels are still nowadays a very mysterious fish species. To better know their swimming behaviour when leaving the European coasts, accelerometers are used in conjunction with Argos pop-up tags to...
Elephant Seals Diving for Science
The marine animals living in the open ocean, and especially in the Southern Ocean, are among the ones which knowledge benefitted the most from Argos wildlife tracking. We discovered a lot about...
Siberian Arctic Fox on the Move
Nowadays Arctic wildlife is often endangered by climate changes and human activities, and they are not always very well known. The arctic fox is a small animal, white in Winter, living around the...
Tweeting Mediterranean Loggerhead Turtles as Oceanographers
Loggerhead turtle around Balearic Islands are equipped with Argos satellite tracking tags. Their data are used as oceanographic data source, and they also can be followed in real-time on Twitter, as...
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...
How do lesser spotted eagles learn their migration routes?
Argos wildlife tracking helps to understand the best conditions for young lesser spotted eagles to survive their first migration. Using solar-powered tags, over 100 birds of different birth location...
Argos’ Challenges for ActInSpace 2018
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,...
Argos Satellite System Helps Track Porbeagle Sharks
Porbeagle shark is a wildlife species which migrates long distances. Monitoring their movements is important to help protect them. Since they are permanently subaquatic, they are located using Argos...
Contribution of Space Technologies for Livestock and Food Security
As part of the ESA program named ARTES 20/Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP), and with the support of the CNES, CLS is working on a new space application for animal tracking in the field of...
Endangered Sea Turtle Species in Papua New Guinea
One of our Argos users recently deployed the first satellite tagged, hard shelled turtles (greens and hawksbills) in Papua New Guinea. The Argos satellite tags will help to understand the movement...
Caspian Seal Ecology and Conservation
The Caspian seal (Pusa caspica) is a small-bodied, ice-breeding phocid, endemic to the landlocked Caspian Sea in Central Asia. The species is listed as ‘Endangered’ by the International Union for...
The Lynxes of Jura
A video recently posted on Facebook by Jean-Marie Thévenard, shows the passage of three lynxes, a female and her two cubs, in a snowy Jura forest. The Argos beacon from CLS is used by the Athénas...
Eric Stéphan and Alexandra Rohr, Learning More About Basking Sharks with Argos
Understanding and monitoring marine species is crucial for the development of coherent and effective management practices. That is why the French Agency for Marine Protected Areas, now part of the...
Capture and Study of Marine Turtles in Martinique
Martinique hosts key areas defined as development habitats for green and hawksbill turtles. In this context, the local wildlife management and conservation structures and the National Action Plans...
Penguins Show the Way for Marine Spatial Planning
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is responsible for the ecosystem-based management of fisheries in the Southern Ocean. The 'ecosystem approach' means...
Katrina Phillips, Junevile Sea Turtles and Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of Mexico
All sea turtles living in U.S. waters are listed as either endangered or threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. Turtles face both natural threats and human-caused threats, including...
Tracking of Sea Turtles
One of our Argos customers recently deployed the first satellite tagged, hard shelled turtles (greens and hawksbills) in Papua New Guinea. Its very exciting news in the turtle world! Conservation...
Argos Transmitter dedicated to track small bird
The ARGOS system is a unique worldwide satellite tracking and environmental monitoring system created by the French Space Agency CNES, the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and...
New Relationships Between Humans and Animals
Digital technologies open new relationships between humans and animals. With sensors, ARGOS-GPS satellite systems and mini-cameras, scientists can now collect data on animal migration and behaviors...