by admin | Feb 5, 2014 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Recently Interpine completed a soil carbon survey for the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) as part of New Zealand’s carbon monitoring system, known as the LUCAS programme. This involved sampling throughout planted forest sites across Northland, Bay of...
by admin | Dec 6, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
Tree height prediction and modelling is an important part of the data conversion, below article describes the equations and their difference tree height prediction. The subject of modelling tree heights is described in the following article; Modelling Tree Height in...
by admin | Nov 27, 2013 | PlotSafe, Training, YTGEN
One of the foundations within YTGen is its flexibility when it comes to choosing which log grades to produce. The Cutting Strategy (*.YTS file) options within YTGen offers the user a wide range of options to define different types of log products. These can be...
by admin | Nov 26, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
We often get questions from new users on the use of “shorts” and “longs” sweep assessment in cruising dictionaries such as RAD05, RAD05A and RAD06. It is worth a few moments to understand the history and versatility in assessment sweep in...
by admin | Nov 18, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, Training, YTGEN
When considering a MARVL (Method of Assessing Recoverable Volume by LogType) inventory for pre-harvest or mid rotation style inventory there are 3 common templates using in New Zealand. These being called commonly as RAD05, RAD05-A and RAD06. So what are these? How do...
by admin | Oct 25, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster
SCION (New Zealand’s Crown Forest Research Institute) announced the sale of ATLAS Technology, its commercial software brand, to Integral Limited, who are a software development company based here on the SCION Campus in Rotorua. The sale takes effect from 1...
by admin | Oct 16, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, Training, YTGEN
Interpine maintains access to download a range of template documents and packages to help you get using YTGEN and PlotSafe. This can be downloaded from our website as shown below, and includes: PlotSafe Field Work Manuals and Procedures Datafile Templates for PlotSafe...
by admin | Oct 14, 2013 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Currently the price of international Kyoto units (called ERUs) are worth substantially less than NZUs, with ERUs priced at $0.34 compared to NZUs at $4 (pricing as at 17/10/2013). Under current ETS rules these ERUs are acceptable replacement units for forest owners...
by admin | Oct 13, 2013 | GeoMaster
Forests are often managed using different silvicultural regimes as designed by the forest manager. A schedule describes a silvicultural regime which can be drawn on when scheduling forest events against certain areas of forest. A scheduled event differs from a planned...
by admin | Oct 2, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
Sometimes forest events occur over part of a stand instead of the entire stand. Some examples would be: A low pruning event has only been completed over part of a stand because of growth rate differences in the trees, with the remainder scheduled to be pruned next...
by admin | Aug 6, 2013 | Company Updates
The annual joint NZIF/Appita technical meeting will be held in Rotorua’s Copthorne Hotel on Thursday 15th August 2013. This not to be missed event will feature a talk by Interpine’s Managing Director Mike King. Mike is an experienced forester and...
by admin | Aug 6, 2013 | Emissions Trading Scheme
A quick update for land owners of Pre-90 forest, as it relates to the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme. By now you have received the second and final tranche of NZUs for your Pre 1990 allocation. These units have been transferred into your holding account from the Crown....
by admin | Aug 6, 2013 | Emissions Trading Scheme
A quick update for forest owners of registered post-89 forest, as it relates to the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme. Post 1989 Mandatory Return Entitlement By now you would have received your carbon credit entitlement for the 2008-2012 period (five years) claimed under...
by admin | Jul 11, 2013 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
Forest Managers need to sample their forest for a range of operations from quality control to resource assessment. This often involves putting in a sample plot network, creating a map for use in field and loading these points into a GPS for use to navigate in the...
by admin | Apr 30, 2013 | Cloud Services, Emissions Trading Scheme, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
GeoMaster provides support for the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) by recording how much of your forest overlaps areas registered as Post 1989 carbon accounting areas (CAAs) and areas classified as Pre 1990 forest land. The ETS support works within...
by admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
The 300 Index is a measure of site productivity, representing the mean annual increment of stem volume of a Radiata crop at age 30 with a stocking of 300 SPH. This is often used for planning forest management activity and monitoring site productivity. ...
by admin | Mar 14, 2013 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) are now releasing formally derived carbon yield lookup tables for participates in the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). These have been created specific to the forest and forest type based on inventory data collected through the...
by admin | Aug 16, 2012 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR
Interpine have been doing several research projects looking at the potential of using LiDAR as an auxiliary variable in regression sampling. The results are looking very promising and we have a range of production field trials underway to move the application of LiDAR...
by admin | Jul 19, 2012 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR
One question that has been raised in the Interpine team in our LiDAR analysis work is; “Just how important is the co-location of the LiDAR and ground survey plots ?” “and hence how much do we have to spend on a GNSS/GPS receivers for fixing LiDAR...
by admin | Feb 4, 2012 | Forest Inventory, YTGEN
History of Stem / Tree Taper Equation Development Taper equations can be used to provide predictions of inside bark diameter at any point along the tree stem and stem volume based on widely recorded tree dimensions. Equations that can accurately predict tree diameter...
