Nov 20, 2018 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
Argos Forum #85 contents : Updates on Argos system & services Using Argos in the polar regions Tags & hardware Innovative techniques in bird tracking Using Argos to track the movements of large pelagics Long time-series of Argos data for historic bird...
Nov 12, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Whale sharks are living in all the warm oceans of our planet. Population repartition and behavior still need to be understood, as well as their movements. Example of a new feeding area for juvenile whale sharks in Madagascar was described and their movements monitored...
Nov 7, 2018 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
CLS is pleased to announce that a new Argos-3 (A-DCS) payload is in orbit, as of 0h47 UTC on November 7th. This new Argos instrument, designed by the French Space Agency (CNES), is launched onboard MetOp-C, the third and final MetOp satellite of our partner, the...
Oct 23, 2018 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
As Robert J. Burnside of the University of East Anglia explains in his presentation at the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife, the migratory Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii is threatened (IUCN Vulnerable) and declining primarily due to over-exploitation...
Oct 19, 2018 | Hardwares, News
CLS and its partners have developed revolutionary new technology, an Argos chipset for uplink and downlink communication. Its small size and weight, just 7 mm x 7 mm and under 1 gram, are noteworthy. Low cost and easy to integrate, it gives Argos satellite...
Oct 18, 2018 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Snowy owls are large birds living North of America and Eurasia, with white / spotted white feathers. They are migrant birds, but in an unpredictable way – they can winter as south as the American Midwest, as well as in the Artic circle. The snowy owl (Bubo...
