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, Emissions Trading Scheme, 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...
