by David Herries | Dec 5, 2014 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, PlotSafe, YTGEN
David Herries recently presented at ForestTech 2014 an overview of Plot Imputation as a method for development of forest yields using YTGEN. The presentation was designed to introduce and simplify the concepts of k-nearest neighbour and plot imputation while outlining...
by David Herries | Dec 2, 2014 | Company Updates
Interpine recently attended both the New Zealand and Australian ForestTech conferences run by FIEA. The focus of this year’s ForestTech event was remote sensing, field inventory and forest estate planning. David Herries presented an understanding of Yield...
by David Herries | Sep 18, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR
Trees and buildings create “satellite shadows”, limiting the areas where you can reliably collect high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS or better known as use of the GPS (USA) or GLONASS (Russian) satellites) data. Interpine operate high...
by David Herries | Sep 12, 2014 | Maori Forestry, Toitu Te Waonui
Potentially a billion dollar opportunity for the Māori economy and a way to realise this. This is the outcome of a recent study undertaken by a Māori forest initiative group, Toitu Te Waonui. What is Toitu Te Waonui ? Toitu Te Waonui is the name of a forestry...
by David Herries | Aug 29, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Let’s be honest GIS editing can be a complex task and there are many tools and methods dedicated to this in software like ArcMap GIS. That said a forester often just wants to update a stand boundary, split a stand or map out a few gaps from a recent survey. In...
by David Herries | Aug 27, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
The Atlas team have recently released the latest version of their GeoMaster Mobile Android app. Interpine’s Forest Management Cloud Service has recently updated to GeoMaster V1.21.0 and ArcMap 10.2.2 which enables the use of GeoMaster Mobile. GeoMaster Mobile...
by David Herries | Aug 26, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
At the core of GeoMaster is the patch layer. This layer is a 2 dimensional layer of polygons (called in GeoMaster, “patches”) covering the entire forest / land area. Hence the “patch” is the smallest unit of land recognised by GeoMaster....
by David Herries | Jul 30, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
One of the features of GeoMaster’s forest stand record system is its link to ArcMap. This gives the ability to easily visualise our forest and its related data. One feature often overlooked is the ability to select upcoming operations and quickly review them in...
by David Herries | Jul 29, 2014 | Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Value Recovery
Practitioners Guide to the Methodology Introduction Concerned with improving the recovery of merchantable volume across a harvest cutover, a harvest supervisor or forest owner will often need to quantify how much is left post-harvest. The time and effort spent doing...
by David Herries | Apr 29, 2014 | Company Updates
As of April 1 2014, Interpine Forestry Ltd (Company ID 205505) has evolved into Interpine Group Ltd (Company ID 3077529). This move brings with it the establishment of Interpine Group Pty Ltd (ACN 152308300) in Australia, thus aligning our business entities both in...
