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Historical Survey - Climate & Extreme Weather

How heatwaves, storms, and drought have actually affected your lake.

What it answers

How is our lake responding to a changing climate?

$900In stock

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    Available in delivered within 15 business days of ordering. contact the boathouse if you need a specific date range confirmed for coverage first.

  • Delivery

    Delivered to your Portal — no shipping, no waiting on a box.

  • If something's wrong

    Damaged, missing, or a result that looks off — tell us and we make it right.

Overview

Archived satellite imagery used to reconstruct how extreme weather has changed your lake over time — freeze and thaw patterns, shoreline change, weed activity, and other indicators of how the water responds to a shifting climate.

Available in three tiers.

Turnaround

Delivered within 15 business days of ordering. Contact the Boathouse if you need a specific date range confirmed for coverage first.

When to use it

What problem does this solve for our lake?

Climate effects on a lake are gradual, cumulative, and almost impossible to perceive from the shoreline. Ice-out arriving two weeks earlier than it did in the nineties changes the entire growing season — stratification sets sooner, the productive period lengthens, and bloom risk rises — but nobody experiences that as a change. They experience one warm spring. The satellite archive holds the record. Freeze and thaw dates, shoreline position, and vegetation extent reconstructed across decades turn a diffuse worry into specific numbers with dates attached. That matters practically as well as intellectually. A lake whose ice-free season has lengthened by three weeks has a different management problem than it had thirty years ago, and monitoring designed for the old lake will be timed wrong for the new one.

What's included?

  • Historical reconstruction of climate and extreme weather impacts from archived satellite imagery
  • Freeze and thaw pattern analysis across the covered period
  • Shoreline change and vegetation activity indicators
  • Storm, heatwave, and drought event impacts
  • Three tiers available
  • Delivered as an interpreted report, not raw imagery
  • Results loaded into your lake's account

What's not included

  • Field sampling or laboratory chemistry. Satellite observation infers conditions from reflectance; it does not measure water.
  • Detection of anything below the surface. This is a surface-optical method.
  • Toxin measurement or species identification
  • Guaranteed coverage on any given date. Cloud cover and satellite revisit intervals decide what imagery exists.
  • Regulatory or compliance determinations

Requirements

  • Your lake's location and boundary
  • The time period you want covered, and the question behind it
  • Realistic expectations about cloud gaps. Some dates simply have no usable imagery, and no amount of processing recovers them.
  • A Plus, Lake Admin, or PRO subscription to have results loaded into your Lake Pulse account
  • Contact the Lake Pulse Boathouse if you have questions.
What you get back

Results

  • A dated record of how your lake's seasonal cycle has shifted
  • Freeze and thaw trends, which are among the most sensitive climate indicators available for a lake
  • Documented impacts of specific storm, heat, and drought events
  • A basis for re-timing monitoring to the lake you have now rather than the one you had
  • Results load into your lake's Data Library in the Lake Pulse Portal
  • Data can be charted in the Analytics Hub, used to trigger alerts, or shared with your board and members
  • Results are found in your lake's portal, accessible only to Plus, Lake Admin, and PRO subscription tiers

Pro tips

  • Ice-out is the headline number. It is easy to explain, it is well documented in the archive, and it is what makes the change legible to a board.
  • Re-time your sampling against it. A programme designed around a mid-April ice-out is sampling the wrong weeks if ice-out is now late March.
  • Longer ice-free seasons mean longer stratification, which means more time for bottom water to go anoxic. That connects directly to sediment phosphorus release.
  • Pair it with a weather station. History explains the trajectory; live data explains this week.
  • This is the least urgent and most strategic product in the satellite line. It changes how you plan rather than what you do tomorrow.

Lake Pulse sells measurement and monitoring — not treatment or remediation. What you buy here positions you to solve the problem, and to prove whether it worked.

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

Results from this product land on your lake's timeline in the Portal — next to everything else your lake has ever measured, instead of in an inbox.

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Our team can help you choose the right solution for your lake, explain how results sync to your Portal, or point you to the right subscription.

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