by admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
The 300 Index is a measure of site productivity, representing the mean annual increment of stem volume of a Radiata crop at age 30 with a stocking of 300 SPH. This is often used for planning forest management activity and monitoring site productivity. ...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available for small to medium forest owners as a cloud computing service (SaaS) provided by Interpine. GeoMaster is a proven forest information system used by large forest owners across New Zealand and Australia. Seamless integration with ESRI...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available as a cloud service for small and medium forest and land owners, and managers. It enables the forest manager to easily plan, manage, and report on all activity within a forest and land environment, maintaining a history of all events...
by admin | Jul 19, 2012 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR
One question that has been raised in the Interpine team in our LiDAR analysis work is; “Just how important is the co-location of the LiDAR and ground survey plots ?” “and hence how much do we have to spend on a GNSS/GPS receivers for fixing LiDAR...
by David Herries | Feb 24, 2012 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LUCAS
Recently, we looked at GPS Precision (EPE). A few questions were also raised about plot location and I thought it might also be good to look at how accurate we could expect to locate the survey point inside the forest under a range of conditions and forest canopies....
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2012 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS
The use of recreational grade GPS (for example Garmin 60csx or Garmin 62S) is now standard practice for the location of forest inventory plots in New Zealand and Australia. We recently reviewed a few questions regarding the accuracy and precision of these GPS units,...
by David Herries | Dec 9, 2011 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, Outside NZ
ForestTech 2011 has held in late 2011 in both Australia and New Zealand. Interpine’s Jonathan Dash and Hamish Marshall presented a discussion on Interpine’s involvement in a range of trial work relating to LiDAR analysis. A quick overview of use and role...
by David Herries | Aug 17, 2011 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, Training
After successfully completing our first Forestry Orientated LiDAR Analysis course to the final year students at the University of Canterbury in June 2011, Interpine is now offering this to the wider industry. This is an introductory course learning how to manipulate...
by David Herries | Sep 18, 2010 | Emissions Trading Scheme, GIS and Mapping
There are a number of guidelines and rules to consider when mapping forest areas when applying to be involved in the forestry ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme). One that is often missed by inexperienced forest mapping providers is the need to “position the polygon...
by David Herries | Sep 17, 2010 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, GIS and Mapping
If you’re entering the forestry Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), you are likely to have been asked to map out your forest land. This is the first step used to estimate the total amount of carbon stored (i.e. the forest “carbon stocks”). Apart from...
