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 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav
HarvestNav is now available as a free download from the Interpine website. Users can now access the application online which was developed with funding from Future Forest Research Ltd. Version 1 of the application is being made available as a free download to...
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 31, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
One of the common questions we are asked is how many pulses per square meter (pulses/m2) should be prescribed in a LiDAR survey to result in a “good” digital terrain model (DTM / DEM). The question then becomes what density of vegetation is covering the...
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 11, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav, Health and Safety, LiDAR
In conjunction with Future Forest Research, Interpine has been developing a Harvest Navigation System called HarvestNav. Interpine recently presented the HarvestNav system at the Foresttech Conference in Nov 2013. This outlined a series of recent in forest trials of...
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...
