1. The Argos/GPS transmitter onboard your vessel continuously transmits signals.
2. Satellites pick up the signals, store them on-board but also relay them in real-time back to earth.
3. Ground antennas relay the data to CLS's global processing centers. Processing centers collect all incoming data, process them and distribute them to users.
4. For each of your vessels, you receive positions, speed and heading at your desktop via the https secure ArgosWeb website or thanks to Meta Fisheries software.

The transmitter communicates with a worldwide network of Argos receiving antennas via a secure global satellite network.

At the receiving stations, the signals are converted into digital message format and routed via usual communication networks to the Argos Processing Centers. Using an Internet connection or other secured means, the final user is then able to access data about his vessels from his personal computer. Digitally encrypted transmission is available for guaranteed privacy.

ArgoNet is based on the Argos location and data collection system. It provides full global coverage, including the equator and poles.

The polar-orbiting satellites carrying Argos instruments are provided by the American National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.

The European MetOp satellites embark a new generation of Argos instruments that will open the way for enhanced system performance, including two-way communication (ship to shore and shore to ship).