Contour Innovations (CI) is announcing the addition of a new feature of our BioBase System. As many of you know, each trip uploaded to your account is processed for depths and plant canopy heights to automatically create maps and output the layered data in your interactive online account. From now on, depth contours will be displayed in blue scale after launch of our new blue scale image feature. When loading your vegetation layer, blue scale will disappear but transparent contour lines will display beneath the % biovolume output.
This feature is great for lake and pond managers that are interested in getting a quick assessment of any sized water body to understand where the deep spots are for diffuser placement and overall management. We still employ a TIN anlysis for accurately estimating total water volume. On a pay per upload plan, our customers can get this data quickly for as little as $100 per water body and in as short as 10 minutes. You collect the data with your low cost Lowrance HDS depth finder, upload it to a secure account from your computer, and the raw sonar is processed in the cloud in minutes. Images of the blue scale can be exported with ease to be included in management plans (images in this blog are direct exports from the BioBase System). State agencies are using the System for bathymetric output to update their existing lake maps provided to anglers. This is just another great feature added to the powerful BioBase System.
To further demonstrate the power of automation and centralization anyone that has already uploaded trips to the BioBase System can now get blue bathymetry for those uploads with little effort. To try it out, log into your account and click the interactive viewer for any trip. Using the REPROCESS tab, check “contours” and resend the trip to our servers. Within minutes you will get an email letting you know that your reprocess has been completed and blue scale will be provided for this trip. Using an online account there are no software updates or manual processing of older trips. Let our servers do the work. That’s what they’re there for. Anytime we add a new feature to BioBase, anything you’ve already uploaded to your account can be updated. It’s pretty cool stuff!
Please contact us with any questions at matt@ContourInnovations.com or 715.864.9347. Pond managers can contact our exclusive partner, Aquatic Eco-Systems (Orlando, FL) at mattr@aquaticeco.com or 407.462.4697. Let us know what you think!