by David Herries | Aug 5, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, PSLog
PSLog is now available in the Cloud (provided online by way of Cloud Computing SaaS). PSLog has proven itself over the years as an easy to use, reliable and cost effective harvesting and logistics software system. It provides management information that facilitates...
by David Herries | Jul 31, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
A forest manager or forest owner is often confronted with needing to manage risks found across their estate. It is important their staff when planning operations are aware of these risks. The Risk Manager within GeoMaster enables details about GIS based risk features...
by David Herries | Jul 25, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Interpine’s Forest Management Cloud Service also includes Microsoft’s Office 365. When managing forests, you have a wide range of documents and information. This can range from GIS to EXCEL, WORD, PDF’s, Photos and more. You need somewhere to store...
by David Herries | Jul 15, 2013 | GIS and Mapping, GPS
If you were ever wondering what those NZTM Co-ordinates (New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 projection grid coordinates) on your GPS actually mean, you are likely not the only one. Many people use these every day without actually knowing much about them. For example...
by David Herries | Jun 28, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Sarah Pitcher-Campbell and Peter Auge will be presenting our Cloud Computing Services for Forest Management at the upcoming NZ Institute of Forestry 2013 annual conference in Taranaki on the 1-2 July 2013. They will be introducing our unique cloud solution for the...
by David Herries | May 31, 2013 | LiDAR
An interesting view of our head office in Rotorua using a recent LiDAR dataset. Shown below are a series of images of the LiDAR point cloud and subsequent aerial photo draped over the 3D model created by the LiDAR data. This is just one example of the information...
by David Herries | May 6, 2013 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Hamish Marshall, Jonathan Dash and David Herries from Interpine recently lead a workshop series in collaboration with Future Forest Research and SCION. This covered the use of Remote Sensing for Resource Assessment, and was held in Christchurch and...
by David Herries | May 2, 2013 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav, Health and Safety, LiDAR
Update: This system is now called HarvestNav (Oct 2013) Interpine has recently released for industry testing an on-board harvesting specific navigation system to improve productivity and safety for machines operating in medium to steep terrain. The focus of this...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster
ATLAS GeoMaster is available as a cloud computing service (SaaS) provided by Interpine. GeoMaster is a proven forest information system used by large forest owners across New Zealand and Australia. Its user base includes hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available for small to medium forest owners as a cloud computing service (SaaS) provided by Interpine. GeoMaster is a proven forest information system used by large forest owners across New Zealand and Australia. Seamless integration with ESRI...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available as a cloud service for small and medium forest and land owners, and managers. It enables the forest manager to easily plan, manage, and report on all activity within a forest and land environment, maintaining a history of all events...
by David Herries | Mar 22, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster
Cloud services is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted computer based services over the Internet. These services can broadly be divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
Featured this week on Hyundai Country Calendar, Farm Forester Gabrielle Walton believes landowners should look beyond pine and plant a wider range of timber trees on their farms. She and her parents, Cloie and David Blackley, grow a mix of specialty timbers on...
by David Herries | Nov 6, 2012 | Carbon Inventory, DataPlus Mobile, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine has completed ahead of time, the Nationwide Forest Carbon Inventory for Re-measurement of Post 1989 Forests completed over the winters of 2011,2012. A total of 202 and 193 plots were established or re-measured across the country in 2011 and 2012...
by David Herries | Apr 24, 2012 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
A recent feature we have updated in PlotSafe is the representation of diameters recorded at the stem description level. This allows for increasing diameters to be easily recorded against the stem description. Previous versions of PlotSafe had an inbuilt rule not to...
by David Herries | Feb 24, 2012 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LUCAS
Recently, we looked at GPS Precision (EPE). A few questions were also raised about plot location and I thought it might also be good to look at how accurate we could expect to locate the survey point inside the forest under a range of conditions and forest canopies....
by David Herries | Feb 21, 2012 | Company Updates, Health and Safety
Interpine shows its commitment to the safety within its operations with the recent update of its accreditation for Tertiary Level ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) Worksafe Health & Safety Management System. Interpine’s most recent ACC audit procedure...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2012 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS
The use of recreational grade GPS (for example Garmin 60csx or Garmin 62S) is now standard practice for the location of forest inventory plots in New Zealand and Australia. We recently reviewed a few questions regarding the accuracy and precision of these GPS units,...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2012 | Forest Inventory
A discussion recently arose on “what should be considered as the starting point for measurement of diameter breast height, that is at what point does the stump height / tree stem start”. Seems simple doesn’t it; “high side of the tree at ground...
by David Herries | Jan 20, 2012 | Forest Inventory, Log Scaling, PlotSafe
Interpine is working closely with Halgof Sweden in 2012 to review the cost effectiveness of deployment of a range of Haglof forest mensuration equipment in NZ and Australia. Based in Northern Sweden, Haglof has been developing and building professional measurement...
