Jan 31, 2019 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
The ocean is one of the most important carbon sinks on Earth. Thus, accurate estimation of CO2 uptake by the ocean is important for predicting global climate change. Automated buoys with data collected by Argos satellite telemetry make it possible to measure CO2 over...
Jan 24, 2019 | News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology
Last month, the international Argo program reached a very important milestone: Over 2 million ocean profiles have been collected by Argo since 1999, greatly improving the understanding of the world’s oceans. The Argos satellite telemetry system has contributed to this...
Jan 8, 2019 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
In the French West Indies, five turtle species are threatened. This includes the hawksbill turtle, green turtle, leatherback turtle, loggerhead turtle and olive Ridley turtle. Three of these species are tracked closely by national and local authorities. Protecting...
Dec 18, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The 3rd Meeting of the Signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks took place from December 10-14th at the Museum for Oceanography of Monaco. It was hosted by the Principality of Monaco. This high-level meeting united...
Nov 28, 2018 | Argos Forum, News
A tribute to the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife at CLS headquarters in Toulouse, France, November 21-22, 2018. Argos Forum #85 contents : Updates on Argos system & services Using Argos in the polar regions Tags & hardware Innovative...
Nov 27, 2018 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
From November 21st to 22nd a group of biologists and Argos tag manufacturers from many countries gathered in Toulouse to share their work using the Argos system at the European Users Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW). Presentations concentrated on more than 80...
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...
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 scandiacus)...
Oct 16, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Hammerhead Shark Research is a project that studies hammerhead sharks Sphyrna spp in the Canary Islands with the aim to contribute scientific base knowledge of these species in an understudied distribution. Information of hammerheads in this distribution is limited to...
Oct 16, 2018 | Hardwares, Herding, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Pollution, Smart Agriculture, Wildlife Monitoring
Argos is a collaborative, international satellite system dedicated to environmental monitoring that has been flying for 40 years. Today, thanks to 6 operational satellites, it provides global coverage via its polar orbits, a unique robustness thanks to a communication...
Oct 15, 2018 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The title for undertaking the most arduous of all raptor migrations, belongs certainly to the Amur Falcon, which is a complete transcontinental, transequatorial, long-distance flocking migrant. The principal breeding (mainly NE China) and wintering (mainly S. Africa)...
Oct 15, 2018 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
During 1995 – 2011 we marked 28 adult Ospreys in NE-Germany with satellite tags working up to eight years. All except three males wintered in West Africa. The migratory paths followed while in Europe seemed much straighter and more directional compared to the...
Oct 9, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
At the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife, Philippine Chambault of IFREMER presents this fascinating project of the French Research agency IPHC-CNRS. Although it is commonly assumed that female sea turtles always return to the beach they hatched, the pathways...
Oct 4, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Brendan Godley, of University of Exeter has been tracking turtles using the ARGOS system for 20 years and has been involved in collaborative projects that have tagged over 500 hundred animals across the world. This has led to fundamental and applied insights for the...
Oct 3, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
There is little known for cetacean species such as pygmy blue whales, but they are at the forefront of protection policies around the world. The distribution of those whales around New Zealand are studied using Argos PTTs and goniometer. There are two subspecies of...
Oct 1, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Southern Ocean predators tend to lead cryptic lives, which in many cases are spent mostly at sea. This makes their foraging behaviour inherently difficult to study. Furthermore, numerous species are threatened through direct human conflict (such as fisheries related...
Oct 1, 2018 | News, Wildlife Monitoring
The European User Conference on Argos Wildlife will be held in Toulouse, France, on November 21st & 22nd, 2018. All Argos users, manufacturers or potential users are welcome to attend this two-day workshop. When: November 21st & 22nd, 2018 Where: Toulouse,...
Sep 27, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Hervé Lormée, of the French Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, will present his work Argos at the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW). The European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur shows one of the most dramatic population decline among...
Sep 25, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Tuna and Billfish Tagging Project in Taiwan uses Argos satellite telemetry pop-up tags to track pelagic species. A total of five tags were recently retrieved using Argos Goniometer, including three tags on amberjacks, one on a big-eye tuna and one on a sunfish....
Sep 24, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
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, fluorescence and light along their paths during their dives and which...
Sep 24, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
At the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW), David March will present the “Oceanographic Turtles” project which aims to provide the scientific basis to support the development of risk mitigation techniques based on new ocean observing and forecasting...
Sep 24, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Francisco Alemany’s presentation at the European User’s Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW) will focus on the ICCAT Atlantic Wide Research Programme for Bluefin Tuna (ICCAT GBYP) started with electronic tag activities on Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus...
Sep 24, 2018 | Herding, Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Alexandre Salman, of ES-PAS, reports on the work of Russian scientists at the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW). As he explains, since Argos instruments fly onboard polar-orbiting satellites, therefore, in Arctic zones, satellite passes are more...
Sep 24, 2018 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Allan Mee, of the Golden Eagle Trust, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, presents his work reintroducing white-tailed sea eagles, at the European User Conference for Argos Wildlife (EUCAW). As he explains, White-Tailed Sea Eagle (WTSE) Haliaeetus albicilla...
Sep 24, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Armelle Jung’s presentation at the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW) will focus on the pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus). It is one of the largest and most abundant open ocean predators in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP), and one of the...
