Monitoring of chemical contaminants within the Environment operates predominantly through manual gathering of samples, transportation to centralised laboratories, and analysed by means of sophisticated instruments. This process is expensive and therefore faces limitations under the demands of current and forthcoming bodies of legislation, e.g. the Water Framework Directive. Recent technological breakthroughs have allowed for the realisation of static analytical systems capable of autonomously monitoring key chemical targets in situ. The challenge at present is to reduce the cost of such systems while meeting the demands of legislation. An alternative approach may exist in a moveable device capable of monitoring large water bodies using a single platform.