CLS – Collecte Localisation Satellites

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 900 people, at its headquarters in Toulouse (France) and in its 34 other sites around the world. The company works in 5 strategic areas of activity :
– Sustainable fisheries management
– Environmental monitoring
– Maritime surveillance
– Mobility
– Energies & infrastructures monitoring

Specifically in the environmental field, these satellite tools and services offer the international community solutions for:
· Monitor inland water resources: lakes, rivers, wetlands, flooded areas, etc.
· Monitor the physical, biological and biochemical parameters of the seas and oceans. Using satellite information and data from buoys or offshore platforms, CLS continuously measures the functioning of our planet’s seas and oceans.
· Better manage territories using geographical data: land cover land uses. CLS photo-interpreters combine their expertise with AI to daily improve knowledge and the provision of independent information on the state of targeted territories and their uses (from the identification of the building to the characterization of entire countries).
· Monitor the functioning and developments of biodiversity: tracking animals, deforestation, invasive plants. Using in-situ sensors connected locally or via satellites (tags on animals or any other type of measuring station), CLS observes and analyzes the functioning of biodiversity across the entire planet.
· Observe and measure the impacts of climate change: fires, floods, marine submersion, droughts, earthquakes. CLS has a 24/7 team to produce maps of extreme weather events across the planet at the request of the European Union.