by David Herries | Jan 20, 2020 | Company Updates, Health and Safety, Staff, Training
Health and Safety Award – Worker Recognition Award presented by Timberlands to Adrian Moke (AJ as we all know him), our Forest Inventory Operations Manager. AJ was 1 of only 4 individuals recognised across all contractors within the Timberlands estate during the...
by David Herries | Jan 14, 2020 | Company Updates, Staff, Wildfire
Proud of our team supporting the Australian fire suppression efforts over the last couple months, with Sarah Pitcher-Campbell deployed to assist providing GIS Analyst Support for Incident Management Teams based in NSW, and Patrick de Jong deployed to assist on the...
by David Herries | Jan 14, 2020 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
For the love of #trees, our teams love of #Environment #Forestry and #LiDAR combine with our recent work to step up virtual #forest #inventory with new scanning systems and analysis techniques. Our team continues to innovate in the assessment of...
by David Herries | Nov 27, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones, Uncategorised, Wildfire
Proud of the team picking up the Timberlands Environmental Award Winner for 2019 at the annual contractors meeting recently. This was in recognition of the development of mapping systems to locate wildfire hotspots with the assistance of drones and infrared cameras,...
by David Herries | Nov 22, 2019 | Uncategorised
Our Director, David Herries recently spoke at ForestTech 2019 in both Melbourne and Rotorua. He covered how technology is changing the way Forest Inventory and Tree Assessment is being done. This short clip provides an example of the virtual reality systems which are...
by David Herries | Oct 23, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Visualising LiDAR 3D Terrain Models in Wood. Thanks to some teamwork with Scion wood lab our team recently provided a client with a LiDAR-derived 3D terrain model carved from laminated wood. This unique way of visualising a landscape doubles the meaning of using...
by David Herries | Aug 15, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Another look at some of our offices for the day. This time our professional CAA 102 certified #UAV #drone teams completing an aerial survey of a forest area to be replanted over the winter. Providing updated #DTM using #machinelearning for deriving terrain models...
by David Herries | Aug 15, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, Wildfire
Patrick de Jong talking on #Wildfire Incident Management from a Fire and Emergency NZ #GIS analyst perspective around the Nelson fires in Feb 2019, great operational use and learnings of ArcGIS, Avenza Maps and FireMapper #ESRI #nzeuc New Zealand ESRI User Conference...
by David Herries | Aug 6, 2019 | UAV's / Drones
In Sept 2018, Interpine featured in the NZ Logger Magazine, profiling the work being conducted with UAV’s / drones across the forest industry in New Zealand. It’s the way of the future. And it’s here now. Next-generation foresters will grow up...
by David Herries | Jun 13, 2019 | Company Updates
We had a group from a Precision Agricultural Study Tour: New Zealand Series 2019. The group from Malaysia, travelling with Professor Ian Yule from PlantTech got insights into our work with Airborne LiDAR, and the use of drones in the forest industry. Thanks to Susana...
