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Land reclamation

Whether you're leading reclamation for mined sites, pipeline corridors, road cuts, or damaged ecosystems, your work is closely watched, and often under pressure. From regulatory deadlines to ecological benchmarks, every data point must be accurate, defensible, and ready to tell the story of recovery. When your reclamation plan success is judged years after you’ve left the site, what kind of data will still stand up to scrutiny?

Restoration doesn’t get a do-over

When field conditions are unpredictable and public scrutiny is high, the tools you use can either support your success, or stall it. Without reliable data, you risk:

Gaps in recovery tracking or soil moisture benchmarks

Equipment failure in extreme or remote environments

Extra labor costs from rework or repeated site visits

Delays in regulatory reporting or milestone validation

In land reclamation, your work is scrutinized by regulators, stakeholders, and the public. Your tools need to deliver results that are as reliable in the field as they are compelling in a report.

METER provides tools that thrive where others fail: on exposed hillsides, in remote reclamation zones, and during long-term monitoring. Here’s how:

TEROS 12 and TEROS 21 sensors measure soil moisture, salinity, temperature, and suction: critical to documenting ecosystem recovery and hydrological stability

SATURO automated infiltrometer makes it easy to generate consistent, defensible infiltration data for demonstrating stormwater function, verifying water retention capacity, and meeting permit requirements

ATMOS 41 weather stations provide hyperlocal precipitation, ET, wind, and radiation data for performance modeling

All sensors connect to ZL6 data loggers and ZENTRA Cloud, so your team can monitor from anywhere and build complete records without field delays

Simplified workflow

Manual monitoring takes time, risks inconsistencies, and often requires more effort than the budget allows. With METER, you get a simple and scalable workflow to keep monitoring moving forward, even when your team can’t always be on site:

Install sensors at representative monitoring points, targeting soil function and ecosystem zones.

Connect to ZENTRA Cloud via ZL6 logger for automated uploads and full system visibility.

Analyze and export clean, consistent data to support performance tracking, stakeholder updates, and milestone documentation.

Data that stands up to scrutiny.

Tools you can depend on.

Restoration is a high-visibility, high-accountability process. If your data isn’t credible, your entire project timeline and funding status can fall under question. Restoration work is too important, and too visible, to be built on inconsistent measurements. Without accurate, defensible data, you risk:

Regulatory reporting failures and project delays

Lost ground on ecological performance tracking

Reduced confidence from landowners, agencies, or the public

When your monitoring tools are accurate and reliable, restoration becomes more than a plan. It becomes progress. With METER, you don’t just gather data. You build trust, streamline documentation, and move restoration forward:

Measure the metrics that matter, without excessive site visits

Keep stakeholders informed with automated, real-time records

Validate reclamation performance with field-proven instrumentation

Spend less time troubleshooting, and more time showing results

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"When the tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant, radioactive material was released. Together with METER, a new method was developed to decontaminate the soil while leaving it fertile."

Department Head of Global Agriculture Sciences Professor Masaru Mizoguchi | The University of Tokyo

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Land reclamation solutions

Reclaim more than land. Reclaim your time, accuracy, and credibility. Monitor reclamation progress with durable, research-grade soil and climate sensors built for long timelines and tough environments. Explore METER land reclamation solutions.

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Infiltration
Soil moisture
Weather monitoring
Saturated zone monitoring

Infiltration

In land reclamation, the way water interacts with soil defines success. Measuring infiltration and saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) is essential for designing effective solutions, preventing runoff and erosion, meeting regulatory standards, and restoring function to damaged sites. METER’s automated lab and field instrumentation delivers the data you need—faster, more accurately, and with less manual effort—so you can make confident decisions and keep projects on track from initial assessment through long-term monitoring.

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) and infiltration

Soil moisture

To bring degraded land back to life, you need to understand how water is stored, held, and moves through the soil. Short- and long-term monitoring of volumetric water content (VWC) and soil suction (water potential) gives you that clarity. METER’s research-grade systems deliver accurate, continuous insight into soil moisture dynamics, so you can evaluate plant-available water, guide vegetation recovery, and ensure sustainable growth—all with less time in the field and more confidence in your data.

Volumetric water content (VWC)

Soil suction/water potential

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Measure the soil moisture profile at multiple depths using a single TEROS profile probe or multiple TEROS water content sensors, all connected to a cloud enabled data logger

Weather monitoring

You can’t restore what you don’t measure. Successful reclamation depends on knowing exactly what conditions your site is facing—not relying on weather data from miles away. Localized, accurate atmospheric monitoring is critical for planning, modeling, and long-term success. METER’s research-grade weather stations deliver the real-time, on-site data you need—temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, solar radiation, and more—with the rugged durability to perform for years. So you can design smarter, maintain with precision, and document progress with confidence.

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

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Saturated zone monitoring

What’s happening below the surface determines what’s possible above it. In reclamation projects, understanding the depth and dynamics of the saturated zone is critical to restoring ecosystems, managing water movement, and mitigating long-term risk. The HYDROS 21 does more than just measure the water table. It delivers three key data points—depth, temperature, and electrical conductivity—to give you a clearer picture of groundwater quality, salt intrusion, flow behavior, and ecological impact. Built for long-term deployment, it’s the tool you need to track subsurface change with precision—and reclaim land with confidence.

Water conductivity and depth

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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