Nov 20, 2018 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
On 16 November 2018, EUMETSAT’s control centre (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) successfully activated the Argos-3 instrument on the Metop-C satellite. The first signal received came from a beacon installed on a...
Nov 20, 2018 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
The European User Conference on Argos Wildlife 2018 (EUCAW) will be held in Toulouse, France, on November 21st & 22nd, 2018 at CLS headquarter. Fifty users from 15 countries will present their fascinating projects for protecting biodiversity. Topics covered during...
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...
