by David Herries | Dec 6, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Making a difference in #Rural #Fire Management with #UAV / #Drones day or night. Hotspot monitoring with @newzealandfireservice and Pumicelands Rural Fire Authority. Interpine’s trained FLIR ICT thermographer’s working on the fire ground with thermal...
by David Herries | Nov 27, 2016 | Forest Health, GIS and Mapping, Health and Safety, UAV's / Drones
Use of #UAV / #Drones as a #forest management tool, providing #foresters an eye in the sky. Inspect 200ha in a few moments. The productivity gains in staff time and gains in better crop monitoring are within reach. But managing the application of this technology needs...
by David Herries | Nov 18, 2016 | UAV's / Drones
Using Thermal Imagery from UAV / Drones, as a means for Fire Monitoring, Fire Attack Planning & Hotspot Detection. An example video is shown taken during a controlled burn operations which was planned to show the effects of terrain & fuel types having the...
by David Herries | Nov 16, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, UAV's / Drones
Interpine are enabling #UAV / #Drones with full motion video mapping capability. Here is an example of marking out #forest harvest boundaries with an eye in the sky, no need to fly to the location to map it, just map with an oblique perspective. Pilots can simply...
by David Herries | Nov 4, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Interpine is focused on enabling #forestry staff to be more effective in their day to day jobs with the deployment of #UAV / #Drones. The benefits of providing our existing experts with a eye in the sky, to see above the trees and landscape around us. Thus empowering...
by admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s David Herries recently presented at the Landwise 2016 conference in Hawkes Bay. The focus was on the value of smart farming, with several of the speakers discussing the adoption and use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles / Drones /...
by David Herries | Jul 20, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
As our UAV services expand we are seeing more of our clients see the benefit UAV’s (Unnammed Aerial Vehicles a.k.a Drones or RPAS) to provide timely and cost effective information for forestry operations managers. In this example an aerial photo (orthomosaic) is...
by David Herries | May 16, 2016 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Interpine UAV team recently put into practice the use of our UAV’s (a.k.a RPAS or commonly as Drones) during a large controlled vegetation fire. With one of our UAV’s now fitted with an integrated Thermal Camera Sensor, this is another example in the...
by admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
After completing trials of different uses of UAVs, Interpine has been validating case studies and is now offering its new services to the forest industry. Figure 1 UAV Solutions Working with our clients, we have set up systems that automate data capture and...
by David Herries | Dec 10, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s David Herries recently presented at ForestTech 2015, providing an update of use of LiDAR ALS (Airborne LiDAR Senors) for forecasting and prediction of Forest Yields. This provided an insight into the development of derived LiDAR metrics,...
