CLS (Collection & Location by Satellite), a subsidiary of Centre Nationals d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) and several French financial institutions, offers satellite services in location, environmental data collection and ocean observations and monitoring to a broad range of professionals including government, industry and the scie
ntific community. CLS America, headquartered in Lanham, MD, was established in 1986, a fully-owned subsidiary of CLS. Since 1986, CLS America has been organized as an operational satellite data centre, which collects, archives and disseminates data collected by satellite, including Argos and Iridium, to Governmental users: NOAA, DOD, US federal law enforcement agencies, national weather services, major universities and institutions. CLS America is the only Argos service provider for North American, Mexico, and Central America. For more information on the products and services provided by CLS America please visit our website (www.clsamerica.com). You can visit our parent company's website at www.cls.fr/en, and/or for data access to your account go to www.argos-system.org.
