ToolboxSatelliteSnapshot

Satellite

Snapshot

Name: Snapshot
Brand: Lake Pulse
Price: 50.00 USD
Availability: InStock

What is happening on your lake right now, without waiting for a field visit.

$50

Checkout arrives with the store connection. Orders attach to the lake on your account.

Overview

A rapid-response Earth Observation tool giving you a quick read on your lake from recent satellite imagery — current conditions, or the last week or so, without waiting on sampling or full analytics.

Three applications, priced separately, selected at checkout:
• Harmful Algal Bloom — $50
• Sedimentation Disruption — $500
• Hi-Res Imagery — $1,500

Built for situational awareness rather than analysis. When something is happening and you need to know its extent today, this is the fastest thing in the Toolbox.

What you get & how it's made

2 parameters

What you get & how it's made for Snapshot
Index layer	What's reported
Bloom index	Map of the most recent usable scene
Turbidity/sediment index	Map of the most recent usable scene

Bloom index
What's reported:
Map of the most recent usable scene
Turbidity/sediment index
What's reported:
Map of the most recent usable scene

You get

Index maps of your lake, with scene date and cloud cover, in your Portal

How it's produced

Source: Sentinel-2 satellite imagery (2015 onward); earlier years from Landsat
Base image: NAIP aerial photography
Resolution: Pixel size shown on every image (typically 10–30 m)
Minimum lake size: About 25 acres
Processed by: Lake Pulse, automated; cloud-affected scenes excluded
Delivery: Within 3 business days, subject to usable recent imagery

Product category

ServiceReport delivered to your Portal
ServiceBy the Lake Pulse Boathouse

Delivered digitally
Available in delivered within 3 business days of ordering, subject to usable recent imagery being available.
Delivery
Delivered to your Portal — no shipping, no waiting on a box.
SKU
LP-SNAP-HAB

Example result

Elevated in north arm

Scene date shown; confirm with a sample

Turnaround

Delivered within 3 business days of ordering, subject to usable recent imagery being available.

What problem does this solve for our lake?

Field sampling answers what, precisely, at one point. Satellite answers where and how much, approximately, across the whole lake — and it does so from imagery that already exists rather than a visit that has to be scheduled.
The situations it fits: a bloom has appeared and you need its extent before a board meeting tomorrow. A storm has passed and you want to see the plume. Someone reports discolouration in a bay nobody can reach quickly. You are deciding whether a full survey is warranted at all.
At $50 it is deliberately cheap enough to use on a hunch. That is the point — the alternative is usually doing nothing until someone drives out with a bottle.

What's included?

Rapid Earth Observation analysis of your lake from recent archived imagery
Application selected at checkout — Harmful Algal Bloom ($50), Sedimentation Disruption ($500), or Hi-Res Imagery ($1,500)
Whole-lake spatial coverage rather than a point measurement
Delivered as an interpreted read, 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
A lake of about 25 acres or more. Smaller lakes, narrow arms, and coves can fall below the image resolution.
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

Whole-lake extent and spatial pattern, fast
A basis for deciding whether a full survey or field sampling is warranted
Situational awareness for a board, an agency call, or a membership notice
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 across your lake community
Results are found in your lake's portal, accessible only to Plus, Lake Admin, and PRO subscription tiers

Pro tips

Start with the bloom application. At $50 it is cheap enough to use on a hunch, and for most in-season questions it is the one you want.
Hi-Res Imagery is a different kind of purchase. At $1,500 it is a deliberate, high-detail look, not a quick check — order it when you need detail a standard pass cannot give you.
Use it to decide, not to conclude. Snapshot tells you where and roughly how much; it does not tell you what is in the water.
Order it while the event is happening. Satellite revisit intervals mean waiting a week can mean waiting for the next pass.
Cloud is the constraint. A heavily overcast week may have nothing usable, and that is not recoverable.
Confirm anything consequential with a lab panel before it goes to your membership.

Results sync to the Portal for Plus, Lake Admin, and PRO subscribers

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

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About these results

Every image shows the date it was captured. Satellite products are derived from reflected light recorded as a satellite passes over your lake. Values are relative indices, not laboratory concentrations, and cannot identify an organism, a toxin, or a pollutant. Cloud, haze, sun glint, shallow water, and shoreline effects can distort or hide the signal, and small lakes, narrow arms, and coves may fall below the image resolution. Conditions can change within hours of a pass. The absence of a detected bloom does not mean the water is safe. Results can help you make decisions about safe swimming and water use, but no result is definitive for every place and time. It is always good practice to check posted signs and your state or local health authorities.

Questions on this?

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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