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Drone imagery for lake health & safety monitoring
The Lake Pulse Toolbox

Aisle · Drones

Aerial and surface detail where satellites blur.

Drones are now part of your lake's toolbox Lake Pulse offers subscribers the ability to utilize drone technology to deliver fast, targeted, and time-stamped data across lakes of all sizes, including or hard-to-reach areas. This approach reduces manual labor while improving accuracy, helping Lake Pulse subscribers track invasive species, assess nutrient loading, and measure the effectiveness of interventions. For your lake to get started with drone solutions, Lake Pulse recommends a 30 min exploratory call, which we charge $10 for.

3 products

Who this aisle is for

  • You need to show a specific bay, weed bed, or eroding bank
  • Satellite pixels are too coarse for the question
  • You want before-and-after imagery across seasons
  • You need a bathymetric map of the lake bed

Best for documenting a specific shoreline, bay, weed bed, or the lake bed beneath the surface.

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Invasive/Native Weed Drone Survey

Thirty minutes with a specialist to scope your aquatic plant survey — then a quote for the flight.

Answers: Where are the weed beds, what is invasive, and how much would treatment actually cover?

Results sync to your Portal with Plus, Lake Admin & PRO

Scheduled serviceFlight booked within 2–3 weeks, weather permitting

$50

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Bathymetry Survey

Thirty minutes with a specialist to scope your depth survey — then a quote for the real thing.

Answers: How deep is my lake, where is it filling in, and what would it cost to map properly?

Results sync to your Portal with Plus, Lake Admin & PRO

Scheduled serviceFlight booked within 2–3 weeks, weather permitting

$50

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Shoreline Erosion Drone Survey

Thirty minutes with a specialist to scope your shoreline survey — then a quote for the flight.

Answers: How much shoreline am I losing, where, and how fast?

Results sync to your Portal with Plus, Lake Admin & PRO

Scheduled serviceFlight booked within 2–3 weeks, weather permitting

$50

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Questions about this aisle

Before you buy drones.

The questions we get most often on this shelf. If yours isn't here, ask — we would rather answer first than sell you the wrong thing.

An operator on a dock launching a drone over a lake for shoreline mapping

Drone & lake health

From the air you can see the shoreline, the weed beds, and the bloom edges the way your lake actually looks.

Questions?