by admin | Nov 20, 2020 | GIS and Mapping, Industrial / Engineering, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones, Uncategorised
Our latest drone, the DJI Matrice 300 RTK shown here with the Emesent Hovermap SLAM based LiDAR. Hovermap’s smooth integration with the latest DJI Matrice 300 RTK allows our team to extend the capabilities of the drone significantly, providing robust collision...
by admin | Nov 20, 2020 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Sneak peeks at some of the rich #3D #forestinventory data being shown at #ForestTECH2020, collected by our Emesent #Hovermap SLAM LiDAR units and processed into #forest #yield using Interpine’s customised #deeplearning algorithms. Over 300 people attending the...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, PlotSafe
When comparing edge trees with “normal” trees (found inside a stand) it becomes obvious they can be significantly different. A generalisation is often that edge trees are shorter and fatter (greater taper) and also tend to have large branching. An edge...
by admin | Jul 14, 2020 | Company Updates, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Planet Satellite Imagery, Wildfire
Having introduced the use of the Planet Satellite Imagery to the forestry sector in 2017, Interpine is pleased to announce we have extended our capability by partnering with Planet to offer support and ease of access to high-frequency, high-resolution satellite...
by admin | Jul 14, 2020 | Forest Health, GIS and Mapping, Planet Satellite Imagery
Join this webinar to listen to our own Sarah Pitcher-Campbell discuss how the forest industry is using high cadence Planet imagery to plan and monitor forestry operations. Wednesday 15th July at 11am NZT (UTC+12), this is a free, virtual roundtable on how government...
by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Company Updates, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
We are proud to have recently purchased the Emesent #Hovermap #Hovermap #LiDAR simultaneous location and mapping #SLAM) solution to better serve our clients. This unit enhances our #forest #inventory, #drone #UAV and LiDAR services providing a glimpse that the future...
by admin | Jul 7, 2020 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, PlotSafe, UAV's / Drones, YTGEN
Interpine starts a new 2-year project working with Forest Wood Products Australia on operational immersive visualisation and measurement of dense point cloud data in forest inventory. This new project extends on work started in 2016, and involves working alongside...
by admin | Jun 28, 2020 | Forest Health, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Wildfire
How Interpine helped Pan Pac Forest Products save time and improve the accuracy of harvest reports with high-frequency Planet imagery. Click here to download PDF version of the full case study. MONITORING THE FOREST HARVESTING FROM SPACE Led by consultation...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Our remotesensing team leader, Sarah Pitcher-Campbell is looking forward to presenting as the keynote speaker at the LIDAR Virtual Symposium hosted by the Arizona Geographic Information Council (AGIC) tomorrow, looking at how LiDAR is used throughout NZ.
by David Herries | Jan 31, 2020 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Have You Got Enough Trees in Your Tree Nursery for this Planting Seasons Orders? Interpine continues to fly its drones for forest nursery owners to provide a complete inventory of the seedlings in stock. While traditional approaches have been based on sampling the...
by David Herries | Jan 14, 2020 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
For the love of #trees, our teams love of #Environment #Forestry and #LiDAR combine with our recent work to step up virtual #forest #inventory with new scanning systems and analysis techniques. Our team continues to innovate in the assessment of...
by David Herries | Nov 27, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones, Uncategorised, Wildfire
Proud of the team picking up the Timberlands Environmental Award Winner for 2019 at the annual contractors meeting recently. This was in recognition of the development of mapping systems to locate wildfire hotspots with the assistance of drones and infrared cameras,...
by David Herries | Oct 23, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Visualising LiDAR 3D Terrain Models in Wood. Thanks to some teamwork with Scion wood lab our team recently provided a client with a LiDAR-derived 3D terrain model carved from laminated wood. This unique way of visualising a landscape doubles the meaning of using...
by David Herries | Aug 15, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Another look at some of our offices for the day. This time our professional CAA 102 certified #UAV #drone teams completing an aerial survey of a forest area to be replanted over the winter. Providing updated #DTM using #machinelearning for deriving terrain models...
by David Herries | Aug 15, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, Wildfire
Patrick de Jong talking on #Wildfire Incident Management from a Fire and Emergency NZ #GIS analyst perspective around the Nelson fires in Feb 2019, great operational use and learnings of ArcGIS, Avenza Maps and FireMapper #ESRI #nzeuc New Zealand ESRI User Conference...
by admin | Aug 15, 2019 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping
Our GM, David Herries showing Field Mobilty with #ESRI mobile apps, operational dashboards, and use of #webhooks to load data into organisational databases with #Microsoft #Flow with #PowerBI for advanced analysis. #nzeuc ESRI New Zealand Conference 2019.
by admin | Jun 22, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, Training, UAV's / Drones
Another group of 13 #foresters completing their #drone introductory wings badge CAR101 course with our #UAV team and Massey School of Aviation this week. Great to see adoption of drone technology as a tool and the forestry industry leading by example and adopting best...
by David Herries | May 9, 2019 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, PlotSafe, Training, UAV's / Drones, YTGEN
Full Forest Inventory Tree Assessment using Virtual Reality (VR). Data is collected using LiDAR and then field assessment is done within Virtual Reality. Another iteration in the development of field assessment using VR using a point cloud collected from above...
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 | Apr 11, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Our team is excited this month to be starting the acquisition and processing of 1.35 million hectares of #LiDAR across #Victoria #Australia. This data-set will support updates to mapping old growth #forests and #rainforest throughout #Victoria for Department of...
