by David Herries | Nov 27, 2016 | Forest Health, GIS and Mapping, Health and Safety, UAV's / Drones
Use of #UAV / #Drones as a #forest management tool, providing #foresters an eye in the sky. Inspect 200ha in a few moments. The productivity gains in staff time and gains in better crop monitoring are within reach. But managing the application of this technology needs...
by David Herries | Nov 16, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, UAV's / Drones
Interpine are enabling #UAV / #Drones with full motion video mapping capability. Here is an example of marking out #forest harvest boundaries with an eye in the sky, no need to fly to the location to map it, just map with an oblique perspective. Pilots can simply...
by David Herries | Nov 4, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Interpine is focused on enabling #forestry staff to be more effective in their day to day jobs with the deployment of #UAV / #Drones. The benefits of providing our existing experts with a eye in the sky, to see above the trees and landscape around us. Thus empowering...
by David Herries | Oct 20, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, YTGEN
Our team continue to enhance #LiDAR based #forest #yield estimates. Moving from a 25m yield pixel resolution to a 5m dynamic analysis frame, creating higher spatial resolution of forest yield estimates through LiDAR #Imputation. While providing foresters a more...
by admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s David Herries recently presented at the Landwise 2016 conference in Hawkes Bay. The focus was on the value of smart farming, with several of the speakers discussing the adoption and use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles / Drones /...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
As our UAV services expand we are seeing more of our clients see the benefit UAV’s (Unnammed Aerial Vehicles a.k.a Drones or RPAS) to provide timely and cost effective information for forestry operations managers. In this example an aerial photo (orthomosaic) is...
by David Herries | May 16, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Interpine UAV team recently put into practice the use of our UAV’s (a.k.a RPAS or commonly as Drones) during a large controlled vegetation fire. With one of our UAV’s now fitted with an integrated Thermal Camera Sensor, this is another example in the...
by Susana Gonzalez | Mar 10, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Interpine undertakes a LiDAR quality assurance audit in every LiDAR inventory project, to ensure the data produced meets acceptable standards. An audit is initiated within 30 days of final data delivery, the main objective is to ensure the data produced is accurate. A...
by admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
After completing trials of different uses of UAVs, Interpine has been validating case studies and is now offering its new services to the forest industry. Figure 1 UAV Solutions Working with our clients, we have set up systems that automate data capture and...
by admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Cloud Services, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Outside NZ, STICKS, Value Recovery
Goetz Roth, Interpine’s lead for the implementation of mechanised harvester production data has recently returned from Europe. In Europe Goetz attended 48th FORMEC, one of the biggest international Forest Engineering Conferences in the world. Over 300 attendees...
by David Herries | Dec 10, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s David Herries recently presented at ForestTech 2015, providing an update of use of LiDAR ALS (Airborne LiDAR Senors) for forecasting and prediction of Forest Yields. This provided an insight into the development of derived LiDAR metrics,...
by David Herries | Oct 23, 2015 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, UAV's / Drones
Exploring the potential of Interpine’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Paiwakawaka 1 (a.k.a Fantail), a Phantom 3 Advanced UAV. Several industries recognise the benefits of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV a.k.a RPAS* or Drone) technology and are turning to drones...
by admin | Oct 14, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
In addition to the standard User Fields provided in GeoMaster, Clients may add their own tabs and fields which can be configured in GeoMaster so that they appear within the GeoMaster forms, reports and can be used for querying. These fields are known as Client Fields,...
by Andrew Dick | Sep 21, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Valuation, Value Recovery
Maximising your return from your forest: The ABC’s of Forestry Stumpage and Forest Valuation Part 1. Know the Value of Your Asset. Small forests, or woodlots, make up a surprisingly large chunk of the national exotic plantation estate. Yet some of these forests...
by Andrew Dick | Sep 21, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Valuation, Value Recovery
Maximising your return from your forest: The ABC’s of Forestry Stumpage and Forest Valuation Part 2. Appointing Contractors and Method of Sale. Small forests are scattered throughout New Zealand and in each region wherever there are forests there are competent...
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 admin | Jul 23, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
In certain instances you may need to add areas from Landbank into a stand (and subsequent events) that have been accidentally left out by mistake; such as when you have created and planted a new stand and the exact boundaries are not known until after the planting...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Keeping productive when using GeoMaster and ArcGIS can be simple, but when overlooked users are often bogged down by the effects of long redraw speeds in GIS systems. This does not have to be the case and takes just a few moments to sort out. Two of the best ways to...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
A quick productivity tip for those users of GeoMaster within ArcMap. We notice as users extend their ArcMap Mapping Documents (MXD files) with additional layers they can get an overload of data in their Table of Contents (TOC), and while cleaning it up might...
by David Herries | Jun 30, 2015 | Cloud Services, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, STICKS, Value Recovery
Recently at HarvestTech 2015, David Herries and Jeremy Gibson spoke on utilising harvester information to improve value recovery and production planning workflows using a recently released Cloud Service called STICKS. STICKS developed by ForestPHD and Interpine...
