by David Herries | Aug 29, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Let’s be honest GIS editing can be a complex task and there are many tools and methods dedicated to this in software like ArcMap GIS. That said a forester often just wants to update a stand boundary, split a stand or map out a few gaps from a recent survey. In...
by David Herries | Aug 27, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
The Atlas team have recently released the latest version of their GeoMaster Mobile Android app. Interpine’s Forest Management Cloud Service has recently updated to GeoMaster V1.21.0 and ArcMap 10.2.2 which enables the use of GeoMaster Mobile. GeoMaster Mobile...
by David Herries | Aug 26, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
At the core of GeoMaster is the patch layer. This layer is a 2 dimensional layer of polygons (called in GeoMaster, “patches”) covering the entire forest / land area. Hence the “patch” is the smallest unit of land recognised by GeoMaster....
by David Herries | Jul 30, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
One of the features of GeoMaster’s forest stand record system is its link to ArcMap. This gives the ability to easily visualise our forest and its related data. One feature often overlooked is the ability to select upcoming operations and quickly review them in...
by David Herries | Apr 22, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Often foresters / supervisors will need to create prescription documents for contractors or internal staff to complete a field event. A simple event report in GeoMaster is often not customisable enough to create a format suitable as schedules in contract appendices or...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2014 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
When considering a forest inventory, as foresters we often need to create a sample plot layout across of net stocked area. As part of our Forest Management Cloud Service, GeoMaster Assessment Planner simplifies the creation of sample plot designs for forest inventory...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, PSLog
One of the advantages of the Interpine Forest Management cloud system is access from anywhere there is an internet connection. A recent client has been using the system remotely using the Apple iPad, with surprising good results. Providing instant access to their...
by David Herries | Dec 23, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
One of the common tasks as a forester monitoring operations is the use of GPS to collect operation/event areas. This might be waypoints and/or tracks of operations from handheld GPS units or collected by aerial operations done by helicopters and planes. We then can...
by admin | 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 admin | 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 admin | 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 David Herries | Aug 23, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
ATLAS Harvest Manager provides the company with a centralised system for managing all the harvest areas within the estate. It enables the harvest planner to record planned harvest areas years into the future, track the changes in state as the areas are prepared for...
by David Herries | Aug 21, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
Recently we were introducing GeoMaster to a new client, and one thing that stood out was making the GIS easy to use for the operational foresters and supervisors. Often as a forester you need or get asked to provide managers, forest owners and yourself with maps, to...
by David Herries | Aug 21, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
Harvesting markups is a regular task carried out by most forest managers. This can be: an eyeball assessment sketched on a map, walking the boundary with a GPS, using offset waypoints with a GPS and rangefinder, or using an aerial flyover and photographs. Doing this...
by David Herries | Aug 20, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
One of the regular tasks a forest operations supervisor will need to do is keep an eye on progress of their operations. As well as needing to update progress to assist in planning, this is often critical for contractor or forest manager invoicing and payments on a...
by David Herries | Aug 5, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Several of our Forest Management Cloud Services clients have been asking for easier ways to manage and keep information on forestry cutting rights prior to landowners or the next forest manager receiving back the land for the next rotation. Common examples are when a...
by David Herries | Aug 5, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, PSLog
PSLog is now available in the Cloud (provided online by way of Cloud Computing SaaS). PSLog has proven itself over the years as an easy to use, reliable and cost effective harvesting and logistics software system. It provides management information that facilitates...
by David Herries | Jul 31, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
A forest manager or forest owner is often confronted with needing to manage risks found across their estate. It is important their staff when planning operations are aware of these risks. The Risk Manager within GeoMaster enables details about GIS based risk features...
by David Herries | Jul 25, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Interpine’s Forest Management Cloud Service also includes Microsoft’s Office 365. When managing forests, you have a wide range of documents and information. This can range from GIS to EXCEL, WORD, PDF’s, Photos and more. You need somewhere to store...
by admin | Jul 11, 2013 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
Forest Managers need to sample their forest for a range of operations from quality control to resource assessment. This often involves putting in a sample plot network, creating a map for use in field and loading these points into a GPS for use to navigate in the...
