The monitoring of lakes is mainly based on collecting water samples, which are transported to a laboratory for analysis. In lake-rich regions, the gathering of information about water quality is challenging because only a small proportion of the lakes can be assessed each year. One of the techniques for improving the temporal and spatial representativeness of lake monitoring is remote sensing, for example, from UAV-photography.

The survey of water quality estimation by UAV-photography is running and first pilot flight will operate on summer 2017.