YSI autonomous survey vehicles provide trusted water quality, quantity and flow data. Let YSI drive the vehicles for you with their vehicle services.

Accelerate Your Water Monitoring Program

YSI has worked with global experts to design vehicle platforms for applications ranging from pure environmental research to drinking water reservoir management.

When combining multiple sensors on a single survey vehicle, you can simultaneously collect data for water quality, water velocity, water flow, bathymetry, and photogrammetry in a single autonomous mission!

rQPOD RSV

Remote surface water vehicle

Collect water quality, discharge, hydrographic, and even side-scan sonar data from one vehicle! The rQPOD platform of remote surface vehicle systems offers water professionals the ability to run today's top sensors simultaneously for integrated, spatially, and temporally-aligned data sets.

rQPOD Remote Surface Water Vehicle

EcoMapper Nano AUV

Autonomous underwater vehicle

The next generation of autonomous water quality vehicles. The Nano generates high-resolution maps of water quality, water currents, bathymetry, and sonar imagery. The Nano offers the ability to descend vertically, which can provide precise data throughout a column of water.

EcoMapper Nano Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

High-quality data at your fingertips

Get more high-quality, spatial, and temporal data in one mission than ever before possible. With the rQPOD RSV, you can cover over a hundred acres per day at a single depth when operating at the optimal speed of 2-3 knots. Multiple depths ("layers") are possible when you dive underwater with the EcoMapper Nano AUV.

Industry-leading technology

Top Xylem sensor technologies, such as the EXO Multiparameter sonde water quality platform and the range of SonTek acoustic doppler instruments, come together in a single-vehicle platform, but the autonomous and remote-control features take the tech to the next level.

Survey vehicle services

Maximize your water monitoring and minimize your effort. A contract with YSI allows you to get all the benefits of our unique autonomous vehicle platforms without a purchase. Monitor parameters such as

Take these 5 steps to get all the benefits of our unique autonomous vehicles:

Contact your YSI representative to discuss your project
Place your order and schedule the desired service date
Plan your vehicle mission with a YSI application expert
Our expert will arrive with a fully loaded, calibrated vehicle to execute the mission
The data and reports will be delivered as defined by your order

Contact our Services Team

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The YSI crew is here for you

Make your project a winner by bringing our unsurpassed application expertise. From Korea to King County, Florida, our team has run missions with autonomous vehicles in canals, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and other environments. Each scenario brings unique requirements and risks. Save your team the ramp-up time associated with training and mastering this technology. Let YSI Drive!

YSI survey vehicle training by industry experts

Let the vehicles do the work

Keep your people safely ashore while collecting valuable data. Certain environments are particularly hazardous—acid mine drainage, reservoirs, wastewater lagoons, and industrial waste holding ponds are places where an unmanned vehicle is not just preferred but necessary. Protect your personnel (and ours!) by letting the vehicle do the work.

Interested in additional water monitoring services such as monitoring station design and installation, monitoring station maintenance, or flow monitoring? If so, please visit our Water Monitoring Services page to see how we can help you.