by admin | Jun 25, 2025 | Company Updates, UAV's / Drones
Explore our head office at 99 Sala Street, Rotorua, like never before with our stunning 3D model! Captured using the cutting-edge DJI Matrice 4E, this drone delivers unparalleled detail through advanced automated flight modes, photogrammetry, and 3D mesh creation. As...
by admin | May 29, 2025 | Training, UAV's / Drones
In partnership with FenixUAS, Interpine is offers a comprehensive 5-day course designed to get you operational with drones. Designed for professionals you want to uptake this new technology in their daily roles. This course is perfect for anyone looking to harness...
by admin | Mar 7, 2025 | Forest Inventory, TreeTools, UAV's / Drones
We are excited to announce the release of TreeTools VirtualPlot version 2.04, our advanced Ai virtual plotting application. This update marks a significant milestone, bringing enhanced features and improved precision to our users. To download the latest version, if...
by admin | Feb 12, 2025 | Training, UAV's / Drones
We are excited to announce our 2025 drone course dates! In partnership with FenixUAS, Interpine is offering a comprehensive 5-day course designed to get you operational with drones. This course is perfect for anyone looking to harness drone technology in the...
by admin | Jan 25, 2025 | TreeTools, UAV's / Drones
More often, you are needing to conduct your flights with terrain following feature. Terrain follow is suggested for sites with varying elevations and helps to ensure a consistent ground sampling distance across the survey area. It is also needed for TreeTools...
by admin | Jan 6, 2025 | Company Updates, GIS and Mapping, Remote sensing, UAV's / Drones
We are pleased to announce that our drone operations have successfully renewed our CAA Part 102 Certification just before Christmas 2024. This being extended the maximum allowable period of 5 years through to 2029. This achievement reaffirms our professional drone...
by admin | Nov 4, 2024 | Forest Inventory, TreeTools, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s TreeTools VirtualPlot Forest Inventory tool has been developed for foresters to assess stocking in silvicultural operations during forest management. Using a drone, you can create virtual plots both onsite and offline in the forest, aiding in...
by admin | Jul 21, 2024 | Health and Safety, UAV's / Drones
The success of FlightAdvisorNZ.io NZ in reducing aircraft conflicts through their low-level flight advisory service for both manned and unmanned aircraft in uncontrolled airspace in New Zealand cannot be overstated. Enhancing Airspace Safety with FlightAdvisor During...
by admin | Feb 22, 2024 | Industrial / Engineering, UAV's / Drones
Our Drone UAV team uses drone-based SLAM LiDAR technology that can work in GPS-denied environments to collect data and calculate product/material volumes for inventory stocktaking. Getting warehouse stockpile volumes in tight spaces and internal warehouses could...
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 | May 10, 2023 | Environmental, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
In July 2022 a winter storm dropped 550 mm of precipitation on the Southern Alps of New Zealand. This initiated large snow avalanches and a mass movement cycle of debris flows, and erosion, which was the largest observed in decades. Our drone lidar surveys were used...
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 | Jun 3, 2022 | UAV's / Drones
The Interpine team has recently been working with RNZAF Flight Advisor Service which has been created with NZDF and Aeropath. It is a simple way pilots can access any of our registered UAV flights simply and easily via Flight Advisor (flightadvisornz.io). Targeting...
by David Herries | May 26, 2022 | UAV's / Drones, Wildfire
Learn more about the innovation in drones and there use in wildfires with this great webinar where Interpine is presenting alongside with the DJI Enterprise team on the advancements drones and their place on the modern fire...
by admin | Apr 11, 2022 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
2022 ForestTech Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand. Key Note Address | ‘Technology on Steroids’: Remote Sensing, Forest Data Capture & Inventory Management – Past, Present and Future.David Herries, Director, Interpine ForestTECH Events has, since 2007,...
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 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 12, 2021 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
A new research paper on 3D tree segmentation approaches from our collaboration work program with the University of Tasmania and ARC Training Centre for Forest Value. Great work to the project team and a special thanks to Sean Krisanski who is working towards his PhD....
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Industrial / Engineering, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
A small snippet of an industrial engineering site scanned with our mobile laser scanner (MLS) using the Emesent Hovermap SLAM LiDAR backpack. While the unit can also be mounted to a drone, here it is being used in backpack mode allowing capture of complex structures...
