by David Herries | Feb 7, 2014 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
We recently visited one of AAM Group’s plane fitted with the PEGASUS HA500 LiDAR system. This is flying on behalf of one of our clients which had adopted our kNN style of LiDAR analysis for forest product yield calculation. Great to see the system flexibility in...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2014 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Over the last 3 years Interpine have been developing a range of LiDAR analysis techniques for the imputation of forest yield metrics of wide areas of forests estates. Interpine have focused its research in late 2012 to a statistical technique known as k-Nearest...
by David Herries | Nov 18, 2013 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
recent presentation to the NZ Institute of Forestry – Auckland Section by Hamish Marshall highlighted the role and history of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) in the New Zealand (NZ) forest industry. LiDAR was first tested and studied in 1960’s so in itself...
by Katie Simmons | Jul 5, 2013 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR
A team of researchers at Interpine recently completed a case study where stand attributes were derived from field measurements and LiDAR data using an approach known as nearest neighbor (kNN) imputation. The study was highly successful and produced unbiased and...
by David Herries | May 31, 2013 | LiDAR
An interesting view of our head office in Rotorua using a recent LiDAR dataset. Shown below are a series of images of the LiDAR point cloud and subsequent aerial photo draped over the 3D model created by the LiDAR data. This is just one example of the information...
by David Herries | May 6, 2013 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Hamish Marshall, Jonathan Dash and David Herries from Interpine recently lead a workshop series in collaboration with Future Forest Research and SCION. This covered the use of Remote Sensing for Resource Assessment, and was held in Christchurch and...
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 | Aug 16, 2012 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR
Interpine have been doing several research projects looking at the potential of using LiDAR as an auxiliary variable in regression sampling. The results are looking very promising and we have a range of production field trials underway to move the application of LiDAR...
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 | 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...
