by David Herries | May 9, 2019 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones, Value Recovery
An example of structure from motion modelling of a forest just prior to harvest. This is a 3D point cloud generated from drone / UAV camera imagery, which is then used in studying the efficiency and productivity of harvesting operations. It is hard to step back and...
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 David Herries | Nov 22, 2018 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, PlotSafe, UAV's / Drones
Interpine team recently presented and demonstrated at ForestTech 2018 the use of virtual reality for in forest inventory. While the system can use terrestrial LiDAR the focus was on using utra dense point clouds from airborne sensors flying above the tree canopy....
by David Herries | Sep 1, 2018 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, Uncategorised
The forestry industry has been experimenting with virtual reality in Rotorua this week to develop new ways of measuring tree growth. The University of Tasmania and Interpine are carrying out the research, which is partially funded by Forest and Wood Products...
by David Herries | Apr 3, 2018 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
See, measure, and monitor forest wood chip piles as they grown & shrink with Drones / UAV and photogrammetry technology. Remember making a difference with technology is more important than the technology itself. There are many ground breaking technological parts...
by David Herries | Mar 23, 2018 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Millions of #tree #nursery seedlings counted using our #Drone / #UAV based #inventory. #remotesensing technology helping to keep an eye on the New Zealand vision of “one billion trees target in the next 10 years”
by David Herries | Mar 10, 2018 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, Outside NZ, STICKS
Great day in #Vancouver #Canada with our remote sensing team leading a #workshop as part of #ForesttechX conference with rapidlasso. Providing insights into using #Lidar for enhanced #forest #inventory with #LAStoolsand Interpine’s forest yield imputation area based...
by David Herries | Jan 19, 2018 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
A recent video interview with our General Manager, David Herries after speaking at the #Forest Growers Research conference in Christchurch NZ. As New Zealand’s largest #UAV service provider to the forest industry, we are already using UAV’s for a whole suite of forest...
by David Herries | Nov 28, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR
Seeing the #forest for the #trees, explore and #visualize #LiDAR in #3D of your forest and see how the #data provides estimates of forest #yield. https://goo.gl/cCwHaA Share this link with your teams and help foresters understand the ability of LiDAR to describe the...
by David Herries | Nov 2, 2017 | Forest Inventory, UAV's / Drones
Our UAV team making the #pulp #paper #industry more efficient through more timely #volumetric #stock takes with #Drones / #UAV “Use of UAV’s for quantifying our stock pile volumes has been a great step forward in a timely and more accurate process wood fiber...
