Water Quality
The steady rise in human population has led to an ever increasing demand for safe potable water. This need is more pronounced in dense urban areas where there is a requirement for sanitation and industrial waste treatment. The detection and prevention of water sources being polluted is extremely critical to ensure a constant supply of potable water that meets quality standards.
We quantitatively assess:
- Total Suspended Matter (TSM) in g/m3 – key indicator for Water quality
- Chlorophyll-a Concentration (CHL) in mg/m3 – indicator of algal blooms
- Light Penetration Depth (Z90) in m – indicator of murkiness of water
- Colour Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) in m – indicator or organic materials
- Surface Temperature °C – secondary indicator
How are the services provided?
- Since data is remotely sensed, monitoring stations and physical infrastructure are not needed on location.
- Water Quality results can be provided in the form of raw data, GeoTIFFs, KMZ files or detailed reports, as per requirement.
Satsense Solutions Water Quality Monitoring Services provides a low cost and highly effective solution for regularly monitoring water quality. Some of the other benefits are as follows:
- Physical infrastructure & monitoring stations are not required onsite, thereby generating huge cost savings
- Large scale & scope of water quality monitoring as 1000s of sites can be monitored instantaneously and more frequently
- Ability to obtain cross sectional data across swaths which would help in avoiding outlier errors
- In many cases these solutions would be the only feasible method of obtaining such information
Satsense Solutions Water Quality Monitoring services can be used by a variety of businesses and governmental bodies such as:
- Municipalities to monitor the quality of potable water
- Local Governments to detect untreated sewage flow entering water bodies
- Regulators to monitor output from sewage treatment facilities and industries with effluent discharge, track the progress of rejuvenation projects
- Desalination plants, nuclear plants and other industries that need to monitor the water quality of discharge at larger scales and determine location of intake structures
