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Low impact development

We know how much is riding on your stormwater and LID projects—and how hard it is to move fast when critical data is tough to capture. Infiltration, runoff, and soil stability can make or break your design, but getting the right measurements shouldn’t hold you back. That’s why METER provides complete, research-grade monitoring solutions for soil and atmosphere—built to reduce labor, eliminate guesswork, and deliver the clarity you need to validate performance, meet regulatory standards, and design with confidence.

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Infiltration

Understanding how water moves through soil is foundational to effective low impact development. Whether you're focused on pollution control, stormwater management, or regulatory compliance, accurate measurements of Ks and infiltration are essential to getting it right. METER’s automated lab and field instruments deliver consistent, research-grade data—reducing collection time and human error—so you can move from measurement to confident decision faster, with tools built to support both design and defensibility.

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) and infiltration

Soil moisture

Track what the soil holds—and how it moves. In LID projects, understanding water behavior below the surface is critical to long-term performance. Measuring both volumetric water content (VWC) and soil suction (water potential) gives you the complete picture—not just how much water is present, but how it moves, drains, or lingers in the system. METER delivers short- and long-term monitoring solutions that reveal the direction and force of water flow—so you can evaluate infiltration, model site behavior, and design with confidence that your project performs as intended.

Volumetric water content (VWC)

Soil suction/water potential

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Weather monitoring

Accurate, on-site weather data is essential for evaluating infiltration, runoff, and overall system performance in LID projects. Relying on distant stations means missing the conditions that matter most. METER’s all-in-one, research-grade weather stations give you site-specific atmospheric data—temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind, and more—so you can correlate real-world weather with how your design performs. Simple to deploy. Built to last. Ready when decisions matter.

Air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, vapor pressure, wind speed, direction, and gust, solar radiation, precipitation, precipitation EC

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Salinity

Excess salts can compromise vegetation, degrade soil function, and reduce the long-term performance of green infrastructure. That’s why measuring salinity in both soil and water is essential to sustainable LID design. METER provides reliable, research-grade salinity monitoring tools that help you prevent soil degradation, protect aquatic ecosystems, and ensure filtration systems perform as intended—supporting resilient landscapes and defensible design over time.

Water salinity and depth

Soil electrical conductivity (EC)

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ZENTRA System

Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.

Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.

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LABROS System

Streamline your laboratory analyses and reduce human error using the innovative LABROS soil science laboratory collection. Perform automated particle size analysis, generate soil moisture release curves, or measure thermal and hydraulic conductivity with METER laboratory instruments designed to produce accurate analyses in a fraction of the time of other methods.

Even better, LABROS instruments can be combined to perform all of these analyses from a single sample, saving time and reducing measurement errors due to variations in sample characteristics.

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LABROS-capable laboratory instruments from METER, including WP4C, KSAT, VARIOS, and PARIO

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"The SATURO is a huge step forward, being able to characterize the entire rain garden in one day with five or six different measurements. It’s a huge improvement....Two people can easily get through those tests in a day, compared to what we were calling the “gold standard” double ring infiltrometer where you can only get through one or two a day."
Dean of School of Engineering Andrea Welker, PhD | The College of New Jersey

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