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CLS Southern Africa (SA) is a South African company founded in 2003. We apply our expertise in space-based solutions to support environmental projects lead by institutions and industry.

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CLS Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd is a South African company that was founded in 2003. Since March 2021, CLS SA has joined CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) Group, a subsidiary of CNES and CNP. CLS is a worldwide company and pioneer provider of monitoring and surveillance solutions for Earth since 1986. The group works in five strategic markets. Its mission is to deploy innovative space-based solutions to understand and protect our planet, and to manage its resources sustainably.

CLS SA provides a complete marine solution from bespoke metocean instrument deployments to marine environmental consultancy services for application within the ports and harbours, energy, aquaculture, mining, governmental and infrastructure sectors. CLS SA has experts in the fields of meteorology, physical oceanography, marine ecology, marine biology, marine resources and biogeochemistry.

CLS SA has worked in over 60 countries, including extensive work in Sub-Saharan Africa and has completed many successful projects for various clients in the offshore and coastal industries. CLS SA has a legacy of projects that were completed on time and on budget, taking into account the sensitivities of the local marine environment and international best practices for metocean deployments, environmental monitoring and specialist studies.

CLS SA operates ISO-certified Quality Management Systems and our HSE Management System complies with OGP and NORSOK requirements. This ensures that all clients receive the high level of service and safety expected of metocean and marine specialists.

CLS SA Teams

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Environment & Climate Monitoring

Sustainable Fisheries Management

Maritime
Security

Mobility

Energies & Infrastructures Monitoring

environment and climate monitoring

Environment & Climate Monitoring

CLS SA’s staff is made up of a dynamic team of physical oceanographers, marine ecologists and biologists, environmental practitioners and oceanographic technicians who, together, have developed a large skillset to perform various measurement campaigns and environmental specialist studies.

CLS SA has conducted numerous intertidal and nearshore surveys covering estuaries, mangroves, seagrass beds, coral reefs, rocky and sandy shores. CLS SA provides these services both as independent studies and as support studies that aid in our environmental authorization and permitting procedures.

With leading satellite innovation, CLS SA also offers a variety of telemetry applications such as livestock tracking, marine life or oceanographic tracking as well as plastic tracking in the local context.

sustainable fisheries management

Sustainable Fisheries Management

To protect marine resources and ensure a future for the Blue Economy, CLS SA helps fishers and administrators better understand and manage fisheries, by providing the highest-quality data, expertise, software, hardware, and value-added services.

CLS SA provides cost-effective solutions for the monitoring of fishing fleets, catch reporting and using advanced data analytics to optimize fleet management and fishing efforts. With CLS SA’ vessel monitoring systems (VMS) transponders, namely NEMO and Triton Advanced, we enable fishermen and fleet managers to monitor the positions of their vessels in real-time. Additionally. catch data can be integrated into our software solutions provides secured access to fishing fleet information.

For administrative and compliance purposes, we offer the THEMIS software which enables compliance with all international fisheries regulations, aggregates the most complete range of fisheries data, and guarantees the highest level of security. In addition to VMS tracks, THEMIS manages the entire database of ships and all their information (such as identifiers, vessel name and characteristics, owner name, and licenses). It provides a complete administrative solution to combat illegal unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU fishing), monitor fishing efforts and zones, and protect stocks.

maritime surveillance

Maritime Security

Oil pollution, nitrogen oxide or sulfur, illegal traffic, drugs, precious wood, terrorism, piracy or brigandage, illegal acts on our seas and oceans are daily occurrences.

The purpose of maritime security missions conducted by national and supranational authorities is to understand, prevent when possible and manage in a comprehensible manner all events and actions that take place in the maritime domain and that could have an impact on:

  • security and safety of goods and persons,
  • law enforcement at sea,
  • defense,
  • border control,
  • protection of the marine environment,
  • fisheries control
  • as well as the economic interests of states.

As a partner of the largest agencies in charge of maritime security, CLS SA part of the CLS group is an internationally recognized player. CLS provides no fewer than 300 satellites to authorities around the world to monitor and ensure the safety of activities at sea.

By combining satellite imagery, ship identification data (satellite and terrestrial AIS), satellite RF detections, commercial databases and new information technologies (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence), CLS SA can thus offer the most advanced systems in the world, providing near real-time coverage and surveillance of maritime areas.

waste management

Mobility

The mobility of the future will be responsible, sustainable, safe, accessible and at the service of all. The means of mobility have begun their transition to green energy (electric, hybrid, hydrogen). They must respond to the intensification of traffic, the demands of users and must face up to growing insecurity.

From waste collection and urban waste management to humanitarian organizations, UN missions, multimodal transport and regional mobility in the broadest sense, CLS SA is a partner in performance, safety and the energy and environmental transition in the mobility sector.

CLS SA equips all types of vehicles, regardless of their energy sources, with tracking and data collection systems. As a sensor agnostic, interoperability expert, and data aggregator, CLS SA experts have developed platforms for steering and optimizing activities. As a specialist in data science, its employees place artificial intelligence at the heart of the system, increasing the capacity for analysis to make effective and rapid decisions.

As a connectivity player, optimizing the capacity and security of mobile fleets, CLS SA assists cities, territories, waste collectors, humanitarian agencies and multimodal transport specialists in their daily missions.

energy and infrastructure

Energies & Infrastructures

CLS SA specialises in the collection of meteorological and oceanographic data in support of coastal and offshore projects. CLS  SA can provide the design, development, and installation of bespoke near real-time monitoring solutions which provide essential operation data, such as tides, waves, currents, and meteorological conditions.

We continuously invest in state-of-the-art instrumentation, working with all the leading manufacturers to ensure the most suitable equipment is used for each project and have the capacity to perform integration of a wide variety of oceanographic and meteorological sensors and instruments into complex metocean systems. Depending on project duration, location, water depth and existing infrastructure on site, instrumentation can either deployed in seabed frames, on in-line moorings, on surface buoys or on fixed structures. Measurement systems can also either be self-contained or include telemetry for real-time data monitoring.

In association with TRE-ALTRAMIRA, a world leader in measuring ground and structural movement, CLS SA provides a Geospatial observation and monitoring services. Our products and services furnish Industries such as Oil and Gas, Mining, Civil Engineering among others.

In association with Meteodyn, an international wind engineering expert, CLS SA exclusively provides CFD* wind modelling software and consulting services dedicated to Renewable Energies, Urban Planning and Real Time Wind Safety.

CLS Group with you Worldwide

CLS employs 1,200 people at our headquarters in Toulouse, France, and in 40 locations around the world.

CLS, a Commited Company

  • The UN has set 17 goals to save our planet.
  • CLS contributes to 13 of them.
  • We are proud that 90% of our activities are directly linked to achieving these sustainable development goals.
UN Sustainable Development Goals