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...
by Charles Chikono | Mar 2, 2015 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, Outside NZ
Background Interpine has been working with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP – previously DSE and DEPI) on the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program (VFMP) since 2011. Since then Interpine has been involved with DELWP by providing the...
