by admin | Aug 9, 2024 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LUCAS, Uncategorised
Interpine team are proud to be underway again this winter collecting data for our national plantated forest inventory for NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory. This being part of the Land Use and Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS) which is by the Ministry for the...
by admin | Sep 25, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
The New Zealand Government is currently introducing new methods to Post-1989 forest carbon accounting to help reduce the harvest liabilities for landowners, therefore making the NZETS more attractive. The biggest of these changes is the introduction of the ‘averaging’...
by admin | Sep 23, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, DataPlus Mobile, Environmental, Forest Inventory
Our team are proud to be shipping out electronic data capture field kits today for Department of Conservation (DOC) vegetation monitoring teams. Featuring the latest in rugged handheld and tablet field computers, together with software and backend systems developed...
by admin | Sep 22, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Studying #trees early in their #forest rotation for selection is key to improving our #forests of the future. #3D #measurement for #stem form in young #trees using #SLAM #LiDAR generating a #virtual #3DForest duplicate. This is the same tree which has been #digitally...
by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, for participants with less than 100 hectares registered, New Zealand Units (NZU’s) are allocated according to the standard Te Uru Rakau lookup tables. Pinus radiata forests receive units under regional averages while...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, PlotSafe
When comparing edge trees with “normal” trees (found inside a stand) it becomes obvious they can be significantly different. A generalisation is often that edge trees are shorter and fatter (greater taper) and also tend to have large branching. An edge...
by admin | Aug 10, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
#3D #pointcloud colourised view of our Rotorua Head Office as we put to work the #Hovermap #LiDAR from Emesent. Our team were also out scanning a range of permanent sample plots, some of which were close to 50m tall #radiata pine. These were scanned in 3D from a walk...
by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Company Updates, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
We are proud to have recently purchased the Emesent #Hovermap #Hovermap #LiDAR simultaneous location and mapping #SLAM) solution to better serve our clients. This unit enhances our #forest #inventory, #drone #UAV and LiDAR services providing a glimpse that the future...
by admin | Jun 8, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, Log Measurement, Log Scaling, LUCAS, PlotSafe
Our team are reviewing the latest Juniper Systems device for Forest Inventory, Conservation projects and Log Scaling operations. Juniper Allegro’s have been a goto device for rugged forestry applications and it is great to have the latest version running Android...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Uncategorised
2020 #LUCAS (Land Use Carbon Analysis System) training for #Planted #Forest National #Inventory underway using #MicrosoftTeams bringing our staff across the country together online. NZ’s #Carbon Inventory for Ministry for the Environment & working together with...
by admin | May 19, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Cloud Services, Company Updates, DataPlus Mobile, Emissions Trading Scheme, Environmental, Forest Inventory
We are excited to be working with the Department of Conservation (DOC) on the development of a Managed Service for infield electronic data capture of vegetation data collected by DOC for the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) Land Use Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS)...
by David Herries | Dec 21, 2018 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine has completed its 3rd year of a 5 year program to measure New Zealand’s National Plantation Forestry Carbon Inventory. Plots have been established or re-measured across the country since 2007 and this current program is the 3rd year of a 5 year...
by Charles Chikono | Sep 21, 2015 | Carbon Inventory, DataPlus Mobile, Forest Inventory, Outside NZ
Interpine’s Roles in the VFMP Interpine was recently invited by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) to attend the open day to commemorate the successful completion of the first 5 years of the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program...
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 Charles Chikono | Mar 2, 2015 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, Outside NZ
Background Interpine has been working with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP – previously DSE and DEPI) on the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program (VFMP) since 2011. Since then Interpine has been involved with DELWP by providing the...
by Charles Chikono | Jun 19, 2014 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, Outside NZ
Interpine was contracted by the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) to establish and re-measure plots across the state of Victoria, Australia, under the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program. This is a long term project which aims to detect change...
by admin | 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 David Herries | Oct 18, 2013 | Carbon Inventory, Company Updates, Forest Health, Forest Inventory
Interpine have been working with the Department of Primary Industries and the Environment (DEPI) since early 2011. Interpine’s focus to date has been on the Forest Monitoring Data Management and Reporting Information System. This is a customized relational...
by admin | 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 admin | Mar 14, 2013 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) are now releasing formally derived carbon yield lookup tables for participates in the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). These have been created specific to the forest and forest type based on inventory data collected through the...
