LakeESP Lake Buoy

LakeESP (Environmental Sensing Platform)
Lake Monitoring Buoy for Real -Time Conditions of your lake, reservoir, estuary or river.

The LakeESP is a complete lake monitoring buoy for long-term water quality monitoring and management. The sensor buoy features real-time monitoring of water column temperature stratification, meteorological parameters, and water quality parameters. Meteorology sensors can include net long and short wave radiation, humidity, air temperature, wind speed/ direction, barometric pressure and liquid precipitation. Meteorology sensors are positioned on the lake buoy above the water surface. Water column sensors are attached to the lake buoy below the water surface and can include temperature, dissolved oxygen, pressure, and PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation).

The LakeESP lake buoy can transmit data via GSM cell phone or other methods to a user specified destination. Measurements are typically collected once per minute, but can be collected as often as once every few seconds, depending upon customer specification.

The LakeESP lake buoy is a stationary floating system that can be easily installed and is moored to compensate for fluctuating water levels.

LakeESP Sensors

Water Column Sensor Options
Temperature
Dissolved Oxygen
Pressure
Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)

Meteorology Sensor Options
Vaisala WXT520: Wind speed/ direction, humidity, air temperature, barometer, liquid precipitation.

R.M. Young: Wind speed/ direction sensor package

Vaisala HUMICAP: Relative humidity and air temperature

Hukseflux NR01: Net long & short wave radiation.

KippZonen CNR2: Net long & short wave radiation.

KippZonen CNR4: Net long & short wave radiation.

View LakeESP Data Sheet

LakeESP Warranty

System

Assembling the Station with Two People

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Data Logger

The LakeESP data logger houses all station electronics and has a memory storage of 2 Gigabytes. Data are able to be sent via GSM cell, satellite or radio.

Station

The station main frame is a free-floating balanced platform that is designed for up to 20 meters of water level variation.

LakeESP Components

Software
LakeESP can provide data for a variety of software programs.

Visual Display

EQuIS LakeWatch from EarthSoft: collects data, analyzes trends, displays graphical representations.

Modeling Services

GEMSS: ERM's Surfacewater Modeling Group's comprehensive 3-D hydrodynamic and transport model accurately reproduces vertical and longitudinal water quality gradients and multi-decade simulations.
CE-QUAL-W2: 2D (longitudinal-vertical) hydrodynamic and water quality model used for rivers, estuaries, lakes, reservoirs and river basin systems.

Centre for Water Research Model Services: Hydrodynamic and biological models used for simulation of the physical, chemical and biological dynamics within aquatic systems.
View real-time data from OLARIS.

Other Services

The U.S. Geological Survey is available for LakeESP installation assistance and public data display (for U.S. LakeESP users).

Please contact PME if you are interested in any of the above software or services.

Applications

LakeESP Can be Used To:

Monitor lake thermal regime
Collect and transmit real-time data
Manage the lake or reservoir
Compute mixing and meteorological forcing
Validate numerical models

Case Study

Monitoring Deadwood Reservoir with LDS (previous version of LakeESP)

Station installed for the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) and transmits water column and meteorological data.