by admin | Mar 6, 2023 | Cutover Debris Assessment, Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Log Measurement, Slash Assessment, UAV's / Drones
Objective Quantify woody debris / slash content along the coastal, and inland catchment areas, characterizing it by woody debris source or type, volume per hectare, and the total volume accumulated. Sampling Methodology Review Line Intercept Sampling Plots Due to the...
by admin | Feb 24, 2023 | Company Updates
Many of the Interpine team have friends, family, clients, and colleagues impacted by Cyclone Gabrielle. Our thoughts are with those as they start the journey of recovery. A small token of our support for the communities impacted as we donate $10,000 to help in the...
by admin | Feb 14, 2023 | GIS and Mapping, Planet Satellite Imagery
Contact our team to get the latest satellite imagery of your forests or properties for post storm assessment from Cyclone Gabrielle. Interpine will task medium (3-5m) or high (0.5m) resolution imagery immediately to collect data on your area of interest. With some...
by admin | Nov 25, 2022 | Company Updates, Health and Safety, Staff
Great work team, yet another Timberlands HSW Award for 2022. Best initiatives award for the care of our team working in their forest estate. It is all those little things that add up and some passionate innovative staff that want to make a difference that matters....
by admin | Oct 13, 2022 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Support - Cloud Remote Desktop, Uncategorised
Our team upgraded the Cloud system servers Graphics processing unit (GPU) capability with Azure which will enable a better performance from ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Desktop. ArcGIS Pro will automatically detect and use hardware acceleration (the graphics card) if it’s...
by admin | Jun 13, 2022 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, Support - Cloud Remote Desktop, Uncategorised
Sometimes the responsiveness of ArcMap in the cloud environment is less than users would like, leading to frustration and slower work. Here are some tips that may improve matters. General IT measures Your internet connection needs to be above 80 Mbps to get good...
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | UAV's / Drones
The Interpine team has recently been working with RNZAF Flight Advisor Service which has been created with NZDF and Aeropath. It is a simple way pilots can access any of our registered UAV flights simply and easily via Flight Advisor (flightadvisornz.io). Targeting...
by admin | May 27, 2022 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, YTGEN
Our Remote Sensing Consultant, Sam West recently spoke alongside Jan Rombouts from One-Forty-One Plantations at ForestTech 2022 conference in February. Catch up on how Ultra-Dense LiDAR Point Clouds collected using Mobile LiDAR systems like the Emesent Hovermap are...
by admin | Apr 11, 2022 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
2022 ForestTech Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand. Key Note Address | ‘Technology on Steroids’: Remote Sensing, Forest Data Capture & Inventory Management – Past, Present and Future.David Herries, Director, Interpine ForestTECH Events has, since 2007,...
by admin | Mar 22, 2022 | Company Updates, Staff, Training
Great to see our team building back better after COVID19 with staff continuing to grow their skills with a wide range of Competenz national certificates awarded across the team earlier this year. Our team choose to focus any downtime during covid19 isolation or...
by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorised
Interpine’s South Island Operations Interpine has a GIS Analyst, Yannina Whiteley working in Christchurch. She is working remotely with our cloud based system and GeoMaster clients. If you need any on site assistance with mapping or GeoMaster don’t hesitate to...
by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | Forest Inventory, Log Measurement, Uncategorised
Automated Sweep Measurement Project Forest Growers Research and Interpine have joined to help harvesting operations to face some big challenges now and in the future. These include labour shortages, rising costs reducing competitive advantages, increasing barriers to...
by admin | Sep 21, 2021 | Uncategorised
Interpine has developed a complete solution for accurate tree counts and stocking assessments, using a machine learning (ML) model to detect and count trees in aerial imagery. This solution requires little effort to train, and provides highly accurate results....
by admin | Jul 15, 2021 | Company Updates, Environmental, Forest Health, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Industrial / Engineering, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
2021 continues to be a leap forward in drone-based UAV LiDAR here at Interpine. To compliment our two Emesent Hovermap LiDAR units we have also recently purchased the DJI Zenmuse L1 LiDAR + RGB solution for the DJI Matrice 300 RTK. Simultaneous collection of...
by admin | May 17, 2021 | Environmental, Forest Health, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Planet Satellite Imagery
Thursday, 20th May 2021 at 5:00pm NZT LINK: REGISTER NOW Countries in the Asia-Pacific are increasingly integrating geospatial data and combining their outputs with statistical and demographic data for real-time spatial analysis of conditions and modelling of complex...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Cutover Debris Assessment, Environmental, Harvesting, Slash Assessment, UAV's / Drones
Our GM / Director of Interpine, David Herries recently presented at HarvestTech 2021 in Rotorua, New Zealand on a new system for merchantable volume assessments using drones. Improving safety and efficiency while being able to quantify harvest residues across often...
by admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
A new research paper on 3D tree segmentation approaches from our collaboration work program with the University of Tasmania and ARC Training Centre for Forest Value. Great work to the project team and a special thanks to Sean Krisanski who is working towards his PhD....
by admin | Apr 8, 2021 | GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Planet Satellite Imagery
Empowering foresters with up-to-date high-resolution satellite imagery over their forests from Planet SkySat 0.5m GSD flexible tasking and base map products. It is now even easier to update your ESRI ArcGIS & GeoMaster Forest Information System in our cloud...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Industrial / Engineering, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
A small snippet of an industrial engineering site scanned with our mobile laser scanner (MLS) using the Emesent Hovermap SLAM LiDAR backpack. While the unit can also be mounted to a drone, here it is being used in backpack mode allowing capture of complex structures...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
To complement the drone services team we have recently purchased the DJI Zenmuse P1 Full-frame Aerial Survey solution for our DJI Matrice 300 RTK. The Zenmuse P1 integrates a full-frame sensor with interchangeable fixed-focus lenses on a 3-axis stabilized gimbal....
