by David Herries | Sep 21, 2015 | UAV's / Drones
Exploring the potential of Interpine’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Paiwakawaka 1 (a.k.a Fantail), a Phantom 3 Advanced UAV. Several industries recognise the benefits of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV a.k.a RPAS* or Drone) technology and are turning to drones...
by David Herries | Sep 10, 2015 | Cloud Services, Harvesting, Logmaister, STICKS, Value Recovery
In 2009, a staff member in a large forest management company in the North Island, New Zealand expressed concern over the reduction in piece size of the stems they were processing in to logs. This company used a log merchandising system that captured the piece size of...
by David Herries | Aug 28, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Canopy Height Models (CHM) are how many of us perceive LiDAR data and outputs in GIS systems in 2D, but sometimes it is good to understand how they actually represent the underlying LiDAR point cloud data. A client recently asked about the difference in height between...
by David Herries | Aug 28, 2015 | Harvesting, Log Defect Measurement, Logmaker Auditing, STICKS, Value Recovery
Designing cutting instructions for harvesters is still something many forest owners and managers in New Zealand and Australia are still learning. Part of this learning is the use of Simulators from the harvester machine manufacturers. By using a simulator to help in...
by David Herries | Aug 28, 2015 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine is working with the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) on a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. The first planted forest measurements were completed in 2007 and 2008 (post-1989 forests) with further surveys in 2010 (pre-1990 forests) with...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Keeping productive when using GeoMaster and ArcGIS can be simple, but when overlooked users are often bogged down by the effects of long redraw speeds in GIS systems. This does not have to be the case and takes just a few moments to sort out. Two of the best ways to...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
A quick productivity tip for those users of GeoMaster within ArcMap. We notice as users extend their ArcMap Mapping Documents (MXD files) with additional layers they can get an overload of data in their Table of Contents (TOC), and while cleaning it up might...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, YTGEN
Interpine has recently worked with the Atlas team to create a new utility for GeoMaster users. This is for bulk loading of assessments and their attributes into GeoMaster via a CSV file. This new feature can be accessed by GeoMaster users from the Utilities menu and...
by David Herries | Jul 7, 2015 | Harvesting, STICKS
SilviA 7 is a newly developed version of the original program SilviA2007 (last version produced in 2007 and was Windows XP dependent). Primarily SilviA 7 is used to create new cutting instructions (bucking rules for product pricelists) for distribution to mechanised...
by David Herries | Jun 30, 2015 | Cloud Services, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, STICKS, Value Recovery
Recently at HarvestTech 2015, David Herries and Jeremy Gibson spoke on utilising harvester information to improve value recovery and production planning workflows using a recently released Cloud Service called STICKS. STICKS developed by ForestPHD and Interpine...
