by David Herries | Mar 14, 2018 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
New Zealand Minister of Forestry,Hon Shane Jones recently visited our Remote Sensing and #UAV #Drone team in #Rotorua. Sarah Pitcher-Campbell and Chris Scoggins demonstrated how innovative our industry is in the use of remote sensing technology...
by David Herries | Feb 5, 2018 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Our #UAV #drone team again around the country this week working with Fire and Emergency NZ and Lake Okareka Rural Fire Force in Dunedin. Providing updated fire ground maps, thermal hotspot surveys, and training ground crews on use of mapping apps on their smartphones,...
by David Herries | Jan 19, 2018 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
A recent video interview with our General Manager, David Herries after speaking at the #Forest Growers Research conference in Christchurch NZ. As New Zealand’s largest #UAV service provider to the forest industry, we are already using UAV’s for a whole suite of forest...
by David Herries | Dec 18, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, LiDAR
Our #remotesensing team pushing a new way to #visualize your forest and help with planning and #engineering with #3D models. #3Dprinting #forest #LiDAR
by David Herries | Dec 18, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Working alongside Fire and Emergency NZ, the Interpine #UAV team are putting #drones & helicopters to work together during #fire #attack. Combined, fire mapping and #hotspot detection use the smarts of the drone such as full motion video mapping as we have come to...
by David Herries | Nov 28, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR
Seeing the #forest for the #trees, explore and #visualize #LiDAR in #3D of your forest and see how the #data provides estimates of forest #yield. https://goo.gl/cCwHaA Share this link with your teams and help foresters understand the ability of LiDAR to describe the...
by David Herries | Nov 13, 2017 | Forest Health, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Because of the scale involved in forestry, both time and area, mathematics has always been heavily employed so foresters can take samples and calculate averages or make predictions on the growth or yield of their crop. With the advent of increasingly usable and...
by David Herries | Nov 2, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Forestry felling stem breakage studies with #ESRI Full Motion Video Mapping technology enhances the way we can monitor and develop models with data collected with #drones #UAV in the #Forest. youtu.be/V9VmZbvaIQA
by David Herries | Nov 2, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Our UAV team making the #pulp #paper #industry more efficient through more timely #volumetric #stock takes with #Drones / #UAV. “Use of UAV’s for quantifying our stock pile volumes has been a great step forward in a timely and more accurate process wood fibre...
by David Herries | Oct 20, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Great to be presenting alongside the Scion rural fire research team at the annual Forest Growers Research Conference being held in Christchurch. With a field trip from the conference visiting the fire ground and together with the Department of Conservation...