by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping
At Interpine we offer a wide range of forest inventory products, all with same goal; to provide accurate data to decision makers. Here is a few tips to consider on this pathway to an accurate and precise final dataset. Outline Objectives Before starting the process...
by David Herries | Dec 5, 2014 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, PlotSafe, YTGEN
David Herries recently presented at ForestTech 2014 an overview of Plot Imputation as a method for development of forest yields using YTGEN. The presentation was designed to introduce and simplify the concepts of k-nearest neighbour and plot imputation while outlining...
by admin | Nov 30, 2014 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
Virtual DBH’s are used to process diameters of forks and reductions when processing data from PlotSafe to YTGen. A virtual DBH is a DBH applied to a stem where the stem does not exist at breast height. It represents the over bark diameter that, in combination...
by admin | Nov 30, 2014 | Forest Inventory, YTGEN
What is random numbers and how are these used within YTGen? An example use of random numbers in YTGEN is for the calculation of height at which a stem breaks when felled e.g. the whereabouts of break, random numbers hereby only determinate the randomness of a breakage...
by David Herries | Jul 29, 2014 | Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Value Recovery
Practitioners Guide to the Methodology Introduction Concerned with improving the recovery of merchantable volume across a harvest cutover, a harvest supervisor or forest owner will often need to quantify how much is left post-harvest. The time and effort spent doing...
by Charles Chikono | Jun 19, 2014 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, Outside NZ
Interpine was contracted by the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) to establish and re-measure plots across the state of Victoria, Australia, under the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program. This is a long term project which aims to detect change...
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 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
We recently visited one of AAM Group’s plane fitted with the PEGASUS HA500 LiDAR system. This is flying on behalf of one of our clients which had adopted our kNN style of LiDAR analysis for forest product yield calculation. Great to see the system flexibility in...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2014 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Over the last 3 years Interpine have been developing a range of LiDAR analysis techniques for the imputation of forest yield metrics of wide areas of forests estates. Interpine have focused its research in late 2012 to a statistical technique known as k-Nearest...
by admin | Feb 5, 2014 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Recently Interpine completed a soil carbon survey for the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) as part of New Zealand’s carbon monitoring system, known as the LUCAS programme. This involved sampling throughout planted forest sites across Northland, Bay of...
