by David Herries | May 15, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Exploring benefits of high density #UAV #drone #lidar from @RIEGL #VUX LiDAR scanner for forestry. With many hundreds of pulses per m2, the data allows one to measure trees and their attributes. This snippet of a cross section of Pinus radiata forest scanned by...
by David Herries | Apr 19, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
A profile view of an airborne #LiDAR (light blue) dataset from 1200m AGL vs #UAV / #Drone photo derived structure from motion #SFM digital surface model #DSM (dark blue) for a young plantation stand of Pinus radiata. Impressive just how well these datasets line up...
by David Herries | Dec 21, 2016 | Forest Health, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Exploring the benefits of capturing #multispectral imagery of the forest using #UAV / #Drones. Shown here are our UAV team using the MicaSense RedEdge sensor with our DJI Matrice 100. Sensors such as this allow for more advanced remote sensing analysis by our GIS...
by David Herries | Dec 19, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Silvicultural Inventory Using #Drones / #UAV – quantifying tree stocking and heights. Using drone based imagery and structure from motion photogrammetry, our remote sensing team combine an existing digital terrain model to allows forest managers to complete pre...
by David Herries | Oct 20, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, YTGEN
Our team continue to enhance #LiDAR based #forest #yield estimates. Moving from a 25m yield pixel resolution to a 5m dynamic analysis frame, creating higher spatial resolution of forest yield estimates through LiDAR #Imputation. While providing foresters a more...
by admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s David Herries recently presented at the Landwise 2016 conference in Hawkes Bay. The focus was on the value of smart farming, with several of the speakers discussing the adoption and use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles / Drones /...
by admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
After completing trials of different uses of UAVs, Interpine has been validating case studies and is now offering its new services to the forest industry. Figure 1 UAV Solutions Working with our clients, we have set up systems that automate data capture and...
by David Herries | Dec 10, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s David Herries recently presented at ForestTech 2015, providing an update of use of LiDAR ALS (Airborne LiDAR Senors) for forecasting and prediction of Forest Yields. This provided an insight into the development of derived LiDAR metrics,...
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 Andrew Dick | Sep 21, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Valuation, Value Recovery
Maximising your return from your forest: The ABC’s of Forestry Stumpage and Forest Valuation Part 1. Know the Value of Your Asset. Small forests, or woodlots, make up a surprisingly large chunk of the national exotic plantation estate. Yet some of these forests...
by Andrew Dick | Sep 21, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Valuation, Value Recovery
Maximising your return from your forest: The ABC’s of Forestry Stumpage and Forest Valuation Part 2. Appointing Contractors and Method of Sale. Small forests are scattered throughout New Zealand and in each region wherever there are forests there are competent...
by David Herries | Aug 28, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Canopy Height Models (CHM) are how many of us perceive LiDAR data and outputs in GIS systems in 2D, but sometimes it is good to understand how they actually represent the underlying LiDAR point cloud data. A client recently asked about the difference in height between...
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 David Herries | Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, YTGEN
Interpine has recently worked with the Atlas team to create a new utility for GeoMaster users. This is for bulk loading of assessments and their attributes into GeoMaster via a CSV file. This new feature can be accessed by GeoMaster users from the Utilities menu and...
by admin | Apr 1, 2015 | Forest Inventory, Outside NZ, PlotSafe, Training, YTGEN
Interpine has recently undertaken a project to implement PlotSafe and YTGen within Mexico. The trip offered great interaction with local staff, and proved that good forest inventory measurement practices are internationally recognised principals. Language is often...
by David Herries | Mar 30, 2015 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
PlotSafe has recently been updated for the Juniper Allegro 2 field computer by Silmetra. Interpine have been working with the new version of the well proven Juniper Allegro range since Dec 2014. Over this time our field staff have provided some feedback and working...
by David Herries | Mar 30, 2015 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
The modelling of diameter and height relationships during a forest inventory is often undertaken when a subset of tree heights is measured that will then be used to predict the heights of unmeasured trees. One such equation for doing this is the Petterson regression,...
by David Herries | Mar 30, 2015 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
PlotSafe is now available for use by Spanish forestry companies and field crews with the release of a Spanish install. To ease the language barrier as the software is adopted in South America, a Spanish version is now available from Silmetra. This replaces all the...
by David Herries | Mar 27, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Interpine recently presented an update in the airborne LiDAR sensor technology available for use in New Zealand. This was given to the Forest Owners Association GCFF Phenotyping technical steering group. This focused on what sensor capability has historically been...
by Susana Gonzalez | Mar 10, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Canopy Height Model (CHM) is a difference between Digital Surface Model (DSM), being developed from first returns and Digital Terrain Model (DTM) created from the ground returns. Figure 1 – CHM image with trees between 0 and 65 meters of height. The lowest...
