Water Quality & Environmental Monitoring

Water quality: Includes the chemical, physical and biological properties of water and these values are used as indicators of the health of ecosystems.

Environmental monitoring: The processes and activities to characterise and monitor the quality of the environment.

There is no one-system-measures all, and which parameters are measured depends on what measurement program is best suited to a specific project. Point-based measurement systems can be constructed around a particular need, and incorporated into below- or above-water systems. The following parameters can be measured:

Water quality / below water environmental properties:

Depth (Pressure)
Temperature
Salinity (Conductivity)
Turbidity
Dissolved oxygen
pH
Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)
etc.

Above water environmental properties:

Air Pressure
Air temperature
Relative Humidity
Wind speed and direction
Solar radiation
Visibility
Soil water content

Measuring water quality / below water environmental properties:

RBRsolo³ compact single channel depth, temp., DO, Tu and PAR loggers
RBRvirtuoso³ standard single channel conductivity, depth, temp., CO2, DO, Fl, ORP, PAR, pH, Tu, transmittance voltage, etc. loggers
RBRduet³ & RBRduo³ dual channel options with two of conductivity, depth, temp., CO2, DO, Fl, ORP, PAR, pH, Tu, transmittance voltage, etc. loggers
RBRconcerto³ & RBRmaestro³ multi channel options up to 10 channels of above
RBR Wirewalker wave powered profiling system
RBR inductive modem