apply and advance innovative techniques to meet present and future monitoring needs for the aquatic systems within the network
demonstrate the temporal and spatial patterns found in these diverse freshwater systems
evaluate the utility of this technology for integration into long-term monitoring and management programs for these, and other, New York State surface water systems
facilitate the community’s understanding of the lakes and their surrounding watersheds.
Project Objects
to deploy advanced remote sampling systems, equipped with an array of sensors/probes.
to implement and maintain an appropriate data management/delivery/QA program, for measurements made with the robotic systems
to operate and maintain the robots
to conduct ground-truth measurements to support QA
to design, operate, and maintain a web site that will report the remotely collected data in near-real-time (NRT) from these systems
advancement and application of data visualization tools tailored to these data
to provide information that assists stakeholders in gleaning useful information from the near-real-time data