by admin | Feb 21, 2025 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
The Importance of Accurate Mapping in Forestry Operations Effective mapping is crucial for successful planning and optimal execution of forestry operations. Whether you are establishing a new forest, registering a forest in the ETS, buying a forest, deploying a...
by Katie Sassenberg | Jan 20, 2025 | Cutover Debris Assessment, Deep Learning / Ai, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Remote sensing, Slash Assessment
Affordable, Accurate, and Hassle-Free Monitoring of Woody Debris. Interpine has recently expanded it’s artificial intelligence deep learning harvest cutover woody debris detection algorithms to scale at a forest, catchment, coastline or region using 10cm...
by admin | Aug 6, 2024 | GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Training
We are pleased to announce the successful completion of another GeoMaster course by our GIS Services team. Interpine proudly hosts GeoMaster as one of our premier cloud service products for forest management together with the ESRI ArcGIS software suite. This course...
by admin | May 10, 2023 | Environmental, Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Planet Satellite Imagery, UAV's / Drones
The Hawkes Bay Forestry Group has released the findings of their post-Cyclone Gabrielle Woody Debris Assessment, encompassing the coastal areas and significant catchments of Hawke’s Bay. In this study, our team utilized Planet satellite data which has available...
by admin | Mar 11, 2023 | Forest Health, Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Log Measurement, UAV's / Drones, Valuation, Value Recovery
Using AI to detect windthrow or toppled trees and quantify damage across a stand can allow forest managers to understand the next steps. In this example, a heatmap on the damaged windthrown stems per hectare is provided using down-tree detection using deep learning....
by admin | Mar 6, 2023 | Cutover Debris Assessment, Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Log Measurement, Slash Assessment, UAV's / Drones
Objective Quantify woody debris / slash content along the coastal, and inland catchment areas, characterizing it by woody debris source or type, volume per hectare, and the total volume accumulated. Sampling Methodology Review Line Intercept Sampling Plots Due to the...
by admin | Jul 15, 2021 | Company Updates, Environmental, Forest Health, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Industrial / Engineering, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
2021 continues to be a leap forward in drone-based UAV LiDAR here at Interpine. To compliment our two Emesent Hovermap LiDAR units we have also recently purchased the DJI Zenmuse L1 LiDAR + RGB solution for the DJI Matrice 300 RTK. Simultaneous collection of...
by admin | May 17, 2021 | Environmental, Forest Health, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Planet Satellite Imagery
Thursday, 20th May 2021 at 5:00pm NZT LINK: REGISTER NOW Countries in the Asia-Pacific are increasingly integrating geospatial data and combining their outputs with statistical and demographic data for real-time spatial analysis of conditions and modelling of complex...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Cutover Debris Assessment, Environmental, Harvesting, Slash Assessment, UAV's / Drones
Our GM / Director of Interpine, David Herries recently presented at HarvestTech 2021 in Rotorua, New Zealand on a new system for merchantable volume assessments using drones. Improving safety and efficiency while being able to quantify harvest residues across often...
by admin | Apr 8, 2021 | GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Planet Satellite Imagery
Empowering foresters with up-to-date high-resolution satellite imagery over their forests from Planet SkySat 0.5m GSD flexible tasking and base map products. It is now even easier to update your ESRI ArcGIS & GeoMaster Forest Information System in our cloud...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Another neat example of mobile #LiDAR mapping survey with the Emesent Hovermap #MLS showing the ease of data collection for a range of projects. This has been collected at night when the traffic is not present, simply with a 12-minute walk around the survey area with...
by admin | Jan 15, 2021 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Planet Satellite Imagery, Training
Some quick tutorial videos for our clients using Planet Explorer for accessing daily monitoring and SkySat Satellite imagery. From conducting and saving search areas to measuring the area harvested, and even finding where to change measurement units to hectares. ...
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 | 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 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 | Dec 18, 2018 | Harvesting, Training, UAV's / Drones, Value Recovery, YTGEN
Developing tree breakage models is a key parameter in the modelling of forest yield. To model the height at which a stem breaks during harvesting and before log-making can start, allows for correct allocation of recoverable stem volume in which logs can be made...
by David Herries | May 31, 2018 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
Watch a forest in New Zealand be harvested from space, using the latest in remote sensing technology. Monitoring forest activity is a key element of forest management. Timely information enables better decision making and reconciliation leading to better value...
by David Herries | Apr 25, 2018 | Cloud Services, Harvesting, Outside NZ, STICKS
Our Harvesting Performance Services manager Ian Wilson is currently in Finland / Sweden looking at better approaches and opportunities to enhance #forest #machinery #training for existing and new operators entering our industry. Learning through simulation is a key...
by David Herries | Apr 19, 2018 | Cloud Services, Harvesting, STICKS, Training
Great to see the next generation of machine operators training in the world leading #forest #harvesting #simulator suite at Toi-Oho-Mai Instution of Technology Rotorua. Interpine have been donating support to this program as part of our harvesting performance systems...
by David Herries | Mar 30, 2018 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Our #uav team improving value recovery from #forest #harvestingoperations using Esri #fullmotionvideo technology in field studies with DJI #drones. Showing the industry new ways to do previously difficult and time consuming tasks.