by David Herries | Nov 6, 2012 | Carbon Inventory, DataPlus Mobile, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine has completed ahead of time, the Nationwide Forest Carbon Inventory for Re-measurement of Post 1989 Forests completed over the winters of 2011,2012. A total of 202 and 193 plots were established or re-measured across the country in 2011 and 2012...
by David Herries | Jan 14, 2012 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
A freely available publication and data collection template is now available to help forest owners and forest inventory providers with electronically capturing carbon forest inventory data for the MPI Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) Forest Measurement Approach (FMA)....
by David Herries | Oct 17, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, PlotSafe
Interpine is working on PlotSafe templates to allow the electronic data collection of ETS Forest Measurement Approach using New Zealands most used Forest Inventory Software. This generic public template will allow users to collect data on windows mobile handheld...
by David Herries | Sep 14, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
The New Zealand ForestTech 2011 conference was held recently in Rotorua. Interpine’s David Herries presented to the delegates a review of a standardised data collection system for electronic collection, storage and export of carbon forest inventory measurement...
by David Herries | Sep 2, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory
As of 1 Sept 2011, MAF have now released the New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme Forest Measurement Approach (FMA). Participates can now register to apply for their sample locations, and begin to organise field measurement operations. Interpine has been involved in...
by David Herries | Aug 17, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
The government is providing landowners of eligible pre-1990 forest land with a one-off allocation of free NZ units (NZU’s – the unit of trade in the NZ ETS which represents 1 tonne of CO2 emissions). The deadline for this allocation is 30 November 2011. If you...
by David Herries | Mar 24, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, LUCAS
Interpine is set to continue working with the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. Previous planted forest measurement season were completed in 2007,2008 and 2010 by Interpine on plantation forests...
by David Herries | Sep 17, 2010 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, GIS and Mapping
If you’re entering the forestry Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), you are likely to have been asked to map out your forest land. This is the first step used to estimate the total amount of carbon stored (i.e. the forest “carbon stocks”). Apart from...
by David Herries | Sep 16, 2010 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
INFORMATION RELEASE FOR SURVEY SITE LANDOWNERS Part of the “Land Use and Carbon Analysis System” (LUCAS) Interpine is working with the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. The first...
by Martin Lusk | Nov 8, 2009 | Carbon Inventory, Company Updates, Emissions Trading Scheme, LUCAS
The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment’s LUCAS (Land Use and Carbon Analysis System) Project has achieved an exceptional placing, being one of the 4 finalists out of 16 in the Government’s ICT (information and communications technology) awards held...
by Martin Lusk | May 16, 2008 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
INFORMATION RELEASE FOR SURVEY SITE LANDOWNERS Part of the “Land Use and Carbon Analysis System” (LUCAS) Interpine is working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest...
by Martin Lusk | Apr 14, 2008 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine is working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. The first planted forest measurement season was completed in 2007 by Interpine,...
by Martin Lusk | Mar 14, 2008 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine has recently being working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Ministry for the Environment (MFE) and Scion Research to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. The first measurement season is now completed (July to...
by Martin Lusk | Jul 7, 2007 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
The fervour with which global warming, Kyoto and carbon credits are now discussed politically and within mainstream media nationally and internationally begs the question of what carbon value is stored in New Zealand forests. Before I attempt to answer that a basic...
