by David Herries | Nov 18, 2016 | UAV's / Drones
Using Thermal Imagery from UAV / Drones, as a means for Fire Monitoring, Fire Attack Planning & Hotspot Detection. An example video is shown taken during a controlled burn operations which was planned to show the effects of terrain & fuel types having the...
by David Herries | Nov 16, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, UAV's / Drones
Interpine are enabling #UAV / #Drones with full motion video mapping capability. Here is an example of marking out #forest harvest boundaries with an eye in the sky, no need to fly to the location to map it, just map with an oblique perspective. Pilots can simply...
by David Herries | Nov 4, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Interpine is focused on enabling #forestry staff to be more effective in their day to day jobs with the deployment of #UAV / #Drones. The benefits of providing our existing experts with a eye in the sky, to see above the trees and landscape around us. Thus empowering...
by David Herries | Oct 20, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, YTGEN
Our team continue to enhance #LiDAR based #forest #yield estimates. Moving from a 25m yield pixel resolution to a 5m dynamic analysis frame, creating higher spatial resolution of forest yield estimates through LiDAR #Imputation. While providing foresters a more...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
As our UAV services expand we are seeing more of our clients see the benefit UAV’s (Unnammed Aerial Vehicles a.k.a Drones or RPAS) to provide timely and cost effective information for forestry operations managers. In this example an aerial photo (orthomosaic) is...
by David Herries | May 16, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Interpine UAV team recently put into practice the use of our UAV’s (a.k.a RPAS or commonly as Drones) during a large controlled vegetation fire. With one of our UAV’s now fitted with an integrated Thermal Camera Sensor, this is another example in the...
by David Herries | Apr 28, 2016 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster
Our cloud services have recently been updated to include Future Forest Research’s Forecaster Software. Users of our cloud services for Forest Management can now have access to the latest version of Forecaster to use for predicting the forest growth and providing...
by David Herries | Dec 10, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s David Herries recently presented at ForestTech 2015, providing an update of use of LiDAR ALS (Airborne LiDAR Senors) for forecasting and prediction of Forest Yields. This provided an insight into the development of derived LiDAR metrics,...
by David Herries | Oct 23, 2015 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, 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 | Oct 22, 2015 | Company Updates, Training
Eleven Year 13 students from Rotorua Boys’ High School recently went on a Competenz Discovery Tour at Interpine Innovation – a forest consulting and data management company working across the forestry industry. “The students were totally engaged and...
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...
