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.

What it answers

Something is happening on our lake. How big is it and where?

$50In stock

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

Product category

Physical ProductShips to you
ConsumableLab testing
ServiceBy the Lake Pulse Boathouse
CombinationKit with multiple items

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.
If something's wrong
Damaged, missing, or a result that looks off — tell us and we make it right.

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.

Turnaround

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

When to use it

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
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 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

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.

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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