Jun 13, 2024 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Upwell works to better understand how sea turtles use different marine environments at various life history stages in order to reduce the threats they face at sea. However, collecting data on a turtle’s behavior in the middle of the ocean presents distinct challenges....
Jun 7, 2024 | Birds, Fish, Hardwares, Herding, Land Animals, Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
Kinéis, our Space IoT partner, along with RocketLab, is launching the first five nanosatellites carrying IoT payloads for Argos services. Due to unfavorable weather, the Kinéis launch planned for the 18th of June (CET) is postponed to the 20th of June at 7:30pm (CET)....
May 27, 2024 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Red king crabs can be tracked using pop-up tags which release and surface after a scheduled time. However, once at the surface, they may not be located immediately, which introduces an important uncertainty on their location estimate, especially with respect to the...
Apr 18, 2024 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution
Last year we unveiled the wooden buoy, a CLS innovation, that aims to reshape In Situ Ocean Monitoring. Part of an ongoing project to develop an eco-friendly way of gathering vital metocean data, the wooden buoy now has been undergoing further developments and is now...
Mar 26, 2024 | Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
Instrumenting animals with transmitters has been done for a number of years, in particular using the ARGOS satellite system, to gain knowledge on their ecology, assess species vulnerability to environmental changes and/or species distributions. Nowadays, those...
Mar 18, 2024 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Flatback turtles are marine turtles endemic to the Australian continental shelf. Few information is available on them, which hinder conservation measures. Satellite tracking and stable isotope analysis of females nesting in eastern Queensland, Australia, were used to...