by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Oct 14, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
In addition to the standard User Fields provided in GeoMaster, Clients may add their own tabs and fields which can be configured in GeoMaster so that they appear within the GeoMaster forms, reports and can be used for querying. These fields are known as Client Fields,...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Jul 23, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
In certain instances you may need to add areas from Landbank into a stand (and subsequent events) that have been accidentally left out by mistake; such as when you have created and planted a new stand and the exact boundaries are not known until after the planting...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Oct 8, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Managing forest information and operational events in GeoMaster is empowered by the link to ArcMap GIS. This means spatially all land be it productive, or non-productive can have detailed record keeping and more importantly a history. The core to this in GeoMaster is...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Oct 2, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Often you obtain new areas of land or forest these areas will need to be brought into your GeoMaster Forest Information system. If you haven’t been given the new areas in a shapefile the first task is to map these new areas. You can either do this by creating in...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Feb 5, 2014 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Recently Interpine completed a soil carbon survey for the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) as part of New Zealand’s carbon monitoring system, known as the LUCAS programme. This involved sampling throughout planted forest sites across Northland, Bay of...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Oct 25, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster
SCION (New Zealand’s Crown Forest Research Institute) announced the sale of ATLAS Technology, its commercial software brand, to Integral Limited, who are a software development company based here on the SCION Campus in Rotorua. The sale takes effect from 1...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Oct 14, 2013 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Currently the price of international Kyoto units (called ERUs) are worth substantially less than NZUs, with ERUs priced at $0.34 compared to NZUs at $4 (pricing as at 17/10/2013). Under current ETS rules these ERUs are acceptable replacement units for forest owners...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Oct 13, 2013 | GeoMaster
Forests are often managed using different silvicultural regimes as designed by the forest manager. A schedule describes a silvicultural regime which can be drawn on when scheduling forest events against certain areas of forest. A scheduled event differs from a planned...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Oct 2, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
Sometimes forest events occur over part of a stand instead of the entire stand. Some examples would be: A low pruning event has only been completed over part of a stand because of growth rate differences in the trees, with the remainder scheduled to be pruned next...
by Sarah Pitcher-Campbell | Aug 6, 2013 | Emissions Trading Scheme
A quick update for land owners of Pre-90 forest, as it relates to the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme. By now you have received the second and final tranche of NZUs for your Pre 1990 allocation. These units have been transferred into your holding account from the Crown....
