by admin | Jul 11, 2013 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
Forest Managers need to sample their forest for a range of operations from quality control to resource assessment. This often involves putting in a sample plot network, creating a map for use in field and loading these points into a GPS for use to navigate in the...
by David Herries | May 2, 2013 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav, Health and Safety, LiDAR
Update: This system is now called HarvestNav (Oct 2013) Interpine has recently released for industry testing an on-board harvesting specific navigation system to improve productivity and safety for machines operating in medium to steep terrain. The focus of this...
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 | Sep 17, 2010 | GPS
Interpine has been working with LiDAR ground control survey for several years now. To ensure that the LiDAR data is compared correctly with the ground control measurement data, high precision sub-metre GPS units are used to fix the location of the plot centres...
