Apr 14, 2021 | Hardwares, Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
If you had to describe Argos in two words, what it would be? According to Michel Sarthou, Chief Technical Officer at Kinéis, former Head of Argos space segment at CNES (French Space Agency) it would be: “Success Story”. Many may not know this but the first Space IoT...
Apr 7, 2021 | Goniometer, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
Thomas Gray joined the Argos team in 2016 and has quickly become our go-to person on all things Goniometer. He brings ten years of sales and marketing experience in the underwater tech realm previously working for an Argos satellite tag manufacturer. Some of...
Mar 26, 2021 | Goniometer, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Gliders are valuable platforms in terms of equipment but also in terms of the vital information they collect. It is therefore not surprising that many of them are equipped with small Argos beacons in order to recover them in case of loss at sea. Currently, these Argos...
Feb 16, 2021 | Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
Marine Protected Areas are one of the main instruments for endangered species protection. Argos can help in defining their outlines to have the best impact, especially when a large number of tracks is available for habitat analysis and modelling. Example with marine...
Feb 2, 2021 | Hardwares, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution
Plastic in the environment, especially in the ocean, is a major pollution concern currently. If it is well established that most of it comes from land through rivers, how far and by which path? A study using open-source Argos chipsets in bottles to track them tries to...
Jan 29, 2021 | Fish, Goniometer, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
Scientists Chiang, Wei-Chuan (Riyar) & Shian-Jhong Lin, from Eastern Marine Biology Research Center of Fisheries Research Center, Taiwan and Michael K. Musyl from Pelagic Research Group LLC, have been studying the movement patterns and habitat preferences of...
