by David Herries | Jan 14, 2020 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
For the love of #trees, our teams love of #Environment #Forestry and #LiDAR combine with our recent work to step up virtual #forest #inventory with new scanning systems and analysis techniques. Our team continues to innovate in the assessment of...
by David Herries | Oct 23, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Visualising LiDAR 3D Terrain Models in Wood. Thanks to some teamwork with Scion wood lab our team recently provided a client with a LiDAR-derived 3D terrain model carved from laminated wood. This unique way of visualising a landscape doubles the meaning of using...
by Susana Gonzalez | Jul 5, 2019 | LiDAR
The capture and use of high density LiDAR data across forest plantations requires a good understanding of the final output. Sometimes this output is only a digital terrain model and or other times it is to quantify forest attributes, such as mean top height, DBH,...
by David Herries | May 9, 2019 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, PlotSafe, Training, UAV's / Drones, YTGEN
Full Forest Inventory Tree Assessment using Virtual Reality (VR). Data is collected using LiDAR and then field assessment is done within Virtual Reality. Another iteration in the development of field assessment using VR using a point cloud collected from above...
by David Herries | Apr 11, 2019 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Our team is excited this month to be starting the acquisition and processing of 1.35 million hectares of #LiDAR across #Victoria #Australia. This data-set will support updates to mapping old growth #forests and #rainforest throughout #Victoria for Department of...
by David Herries | Nov 22, 2018 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, PlotSafe, UAV's / Drones
Interpine team recently presented and demonstrated at ForestTech 2018 the use of virtual reality for in forest inventory. While the system can use terrestrial LiDAR the focus was on using utra dense point clouds from airborne sensors flying above the tree canopy....
by David Herries | Oct 10, 2018 | Company Updates, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Interpine will again be along at ForestTech 2018, being held in Rotorua and Melbourne this November. Come along and hear about our latest advances in Virtual Reality, LiDAR and Drone applications across the forest industry. 2018 Programme Register Online Event...
by David Herries | Sep 1, 2018 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, Uncategorised
The forestry industry has been experimenting with virtual reality in Rotorua this week to develop new ways of measuring tree growth. The University of Tasmania and Interpine are carrying out the research, which is partially funded by Forest and Wood Products...
by David Herries | Apr 4, 2018 | LiDAR
Interpine, together with the researchers involved in a current FWPA funded remote sensing project have published a video of the recent data acquisition campaign at the Carabost State Forest P. radiata plantation in southern NSW. Teams from NSW DPI, University of...
by David Herries | Apr 3, 2018 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
See, measure, and monitor forest wood chip piles as they grown & shrink with Drones / UAV and photogrammetry technology. Remember making a difference with technology is more important than the technology itself. There are many ground breaking technological parts...
by David Herries | Mar 29, 2018 | LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Our GM David Herries gave a practitioners view as a key note speaker this week at the primary sectors #MobileTECH2018 conference in Rotorua, NZ. Reviewing how digital technology impacts on the forestry sector and how the industry is moving forward and making progress...
by David Herries | Mar 23, 2018 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Millions of #tree #nursery seedlings counted using our #Drone / #UAV based #inventory. #remotesensing technology helping to keep an eye on the New Zealand vision of “one billion trees target in the next 10 years”
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 | Mar 10, 2018 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, Outside NZ, STICKS
Great day in #Vancouver #Canada with our remote sensing team leading a #workshop as part of #ForesttechX conference with rapidlasso. Providing insights into using #Lidar for enhanced #forest #inventory with #LAStoolsand Interpine’s forest yield imputation area based...
by David Herries | Feb 26, 2018 | LiDAR, Outside NZ
Our team capturing #LiDAR data using the #Riegl #VUX-1LR over radiata pine #forest in New South Wales forest last week. This is part of our remote sensing programs being conducted both here in New Zealand and Australia, with our research and airborne partners. Watch...
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 | 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 16, 2017 | LiDAR, Valuation
So what are LiDAR point clouds? Our team look at and analyze this type of data to regenerate estimates of forest yield. But not many foresters actually get to look and see the detail behind all the numbers. Want to enjoy the fascination and immerse yourself in a...
by David Herries | Oct 24, 2017 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, PlotSafe
Assessing / cruising plantation pine recoverable volume by logtype (MARVL PlotSafe Assessment) in virtual reality. Yielding the potential of highly dense point cloud data from #UAV based LiDAR, Bruce Hill our senior operations manager trialed tree measurement and...
