by admin | Nov 18, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, Training, YTGEN
When considering a MARVL (Method of Assessing Recoverable Volume by LogType) inventory for pre-harvest or mid rotation style inventory there are 3 common templates using in New Zealand. These being called commonly as RAD05, RAD05-A and RAD06. So what are these? How do...
by admin | Oct 16, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, Training, YTGEN
Interpine maintains access to download a range of template documents and packages to help you get using YTGEN and PlotSafe. This can be downloaded from our website as shown below, and includes: PlotSafe Field Work Manuals and Procedures Datafile Templates for PlotSafe...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
Featured this week on Hyundai Country Calendar, Farm Forester Gabrielle Walton believes landowners should look beyond pine and plant a wider range of timber trees on their farms. She and her parents, Cloie and David Blackley, grow a mix of specialty timbers on...
by David Herries | Apr 24, 2012 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
A recent feature we have updated in PlotSafe is the representation of diameters recorded at the stem description level. This allows for increasing diameters to be easily recorded against the stem description. Previous versions of PlotSafe had an inbuilt rule not to...
by David Herries | Jan 20, 2012 | Forest Inventory, Log Scaling, PlotSafe
Interpine is working closely with Halgof Sweden in 2012 to review the cost effectiveness of deployment of a range of Haglof forest mensuration equipment in NZ and Australia. Based in Northern Sweden, Haglof has been developing and building professional measurement...
by David Herries | Jan 14, 2012 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
A freely available publication and data collection template is now available to help forest owners and forest inventory providers with electronically capturing carbon forest inventory data for the MPI Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) Forest Measurement Approach (FMA)....
by David Herries | Oct 17, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, PlotSafe
Interpine is working on PlotSafe templates to allow the electronic data collection of ETS Forest Measurement Approach using New Zealands most used Forest Inventory Software. This generic public template will allow users to collect data on windows mobile handheld...
by David Herries | Sep 14, 2011 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
The New Zealand ForestTech 2011 conference was held recently in Rotorua. Interpine’s David Herries presented to the delegates a review of a standardised data collection system for electronic collection, storage and export of carbon forest inventory measurement...
by David Herries | Mar 27, 2011 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
A recent minor update to PlotSafe has seen prune height features stand out more to end users in the field. This will enable them to check the prune height carefully through a quick visual glance at the screen. Through user and client feedback we recognise pruned parts...
by David Herries | Jan 25, 2011 | Forest Inventory, Outside NZ, PlotSafe, YTGEN
2010 saw some interesting projects undertaken both here in New Zealand and overseas. One of these was a trip to China, looking at inventory systems and techniques used for forest sale and purchase transactions in several different provinces. China is a very large...
by admin | Nov 10, 2010 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
Which trees should be height trees? Tree heights are among the most time consuming and difficult measurements to take in a forest inventory. The measurer must be an adequate distance away from the tree to get an accurate measure of height (angle to tip must be <50...
by admin | Nov 5, 2010 | Outside NZ, PlotSafe, Training, YTGEN
Plotsafe and YTGEN course in Fiji In September 2010 Interpine were contracted to provide the first Plotsafe and YTGEN training course in the Fijian Islands. After some hard-fought arguments, and at times physical confrontations, at the Interpine office, Resource...
by David Herries | Jul 15, 2007 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
Data security is critical. PlotSafe has been created with a number of features to help secure your data from loss or corruption, and hence its name. PlotSafe is designed to run on Windows CE3.0+ and PocketPC 2002+. On each of these devices you will need to setup...
by Martin Lusk | Jan 15, 2007 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
Many foresters planning pre-harvest inventory in Pinus radiata in New Zealand consider the option of placing secondary basal area tally plots (aka prism plots) in addition to the normal primary plots. This can be valid way of conducting inventory in some...
by Martin Lusk | Dec 15, 2006 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
With the release of PLOTSAFE and the RAD05 feature cruising dictionary, the CNI regional YTGEN user group have also released an update to the Forest Inventory Procedures Manual which will help people implement PLOTSAFE and RAD05 with ease. This can be downloaded...
by Martin Lusk | Oct 15, 2005 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
PLOTSAFE brings the flexibility to collect multiple overlapping feature codes at the stem level and cruising dictionaries such as RAD05 have been developed to take advantage of these new features. However many users of the current A-Z style single feature dictionary...
by Martin Lusk | Jun 15, 2005 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
Silmetra and Interpine Forestry have recently released PLOTSAFE version 1.2. after extensive testing of the beta version in the past 12 months. Over 2500 inventory plots have now been assessed using PLOTSAFE. The developers and the first clients for the product are...
by Martin Lusk | Jun 15, 2005 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
Interpine and the CNI regional YTGEN user-group (a collection of inventory professionals and users from CNI forestry companies) have created a new cruising dictionary for PLOTSAFE data capture. The overlapping features component of PLOTSAFE allow us to cruise trees...
