Overview
CLS, a subsidiary of the French Space Agency CNES and of CNP, is a worldwide company and pioneer provider of monitoring and surveillance solutions for the Earth since 1986. Its mission is to deploy innovative space-based solutions to understand and protect our planet, and to manage its resources sustainably. CLS employs 1,000 people, at its headquarters in Toulouse (France) and in its 32 other sites around the world.
The company works in 5 strategic areas of activity: sustainable fisheries management, environmental monitoring, maritime surveillance, mobility and energies & infrastructures monitoring. CLS process environmental data and positions from 80,000 beacons per month, ocean and inland waters observations. In addition we monitor land and sea activities by satellite.
CLS has a strong experience in satellite data processing for sea surface temperature, ocean colour and radar imagery as well as in in-situ data processing and validation (Argo float and others temperature/salinity in situ sensors, drifters, and tide gauges). CLS is both involved in research and development activities (multi-mission algorithms improvement, ocean observations validation and combination) and in operational oceanography (GMES MyOcean project, Copernicus Marine Service, AVISO/SALP) and services for end-users (off-shore industry, ship routing, fisheries management).
In the scope of the In Situ TAC, CLS oversees the delayed- time drifting buoys product, the production of dedicated near-real time temperature & salinity observed profiles product for model assimilation, the wind-slippage correction of drifters’s velocities. CLS also takes part in Product Quality activity and Service Evolution.
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