by David Herries | Nov 2, 2017 | Staff, UAV's / Drones
Quietly amongst the Kaweka Ranges in Hawkes Bay the Kiwi can more often be heard. North Island Brown Kiwi to be exact with help from the Pan Pac Forest Products Ltd Kiwi Creche, located at the Boundary Stream Mainland Island Reserve, and the tireless efforts of a few...
by David Herries | Nov 2, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Our UAV team making the #pulp #paper #industry more efficient through more timely #volumetric #stock takes with #Drones / #UAV. “Use of UAV’s for quantifying our stock pile volumes has been a great step forward in a timely and more accurate process wood fibre...
by David Herries | Oct 20, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Great to be presenting alongside the Scion rural fire research team at the annual Forest Growers Research Conference being held in Christchurch. With a field trip from the conference visiting the fire ground and together with the Department of Conservation...
by David Herries | Sep 28, 2017 | UAV's / Drones
Great to see example of further application of our teams #Drones / #UAVworking to provide efficiencies in the wood processing sector. Here is a unique aerial perspective at an industrial site survey using #Thermal#Infrared cameras; providing insights for developing...
by David Herries | Sep 17, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Using #DJI #UAV #Drones as a measurement tool using the #ESRI #ArcGISfull motion video capabilities bring new functionality to the way we can use this technology in the forest for mapping, trials and monitoring forest activity, review the following video to see how...
by David Herries | Aug 22, 2017 | Training, UAV's / Drones
Our #UAV / #Drone Team providing another great training course for the #UAV / #Drone training intake for Aug 2017. A group of 11 foresters, including staff from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology Ministry for Primary Industries, Hancocks Forest Management, Forest...
by David Herries | Jul 31, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
Our Remote Sensing team are constantly immersing ourselves in 3D modelling from our rich #LiDAR datasets. #3Dprintingtechnology brings this from the screen to the table. Meet our miniature model of White Island Volcano in New Zealand. Getting #LiDAR data adopted is...
by David Herries | Jul 18, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Log Scaling, UAV's / Drones, Value Recovery
The Interpine #UAV #Drone continue to innovate around the use of structure from motion 3D modelling. In this case we show some examples of modelling tree structure and resulting stem volume / form, which are important in the forest yield modelling calculations. Doing...
by David Herries | Jul 18, 2017 | Forest Inventory, Harvesting, LiDAR, Log Measurement, UAV's / Drones, Valuation
The Interpine #UAV #Drone continue to innovate around the use of structure from motion 3D modelling. In this case we show some examples of modelling tree structure and resulting stem volume / form, which are important in the forest yield modelling calculations. Doing...
by David Herries | Jul 13, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s General Manager and Lake Okareka Rural Fire Force Deputy Station Officer FENZ Rural, David Herries will be providing insights into use #UAV #Drones during 2016/17 #fire season at #FRFANZ (#UFBA) conference 1-4 August 2017 in Auckland. After...
by David Herries | Jul 13, 2017 | Harvesting, Health and Safety, Training, UAV's / Drones
Rise of the #forest #drones; Interpine’s UAV team leader spoke recently at the FIEA HarvestTech 2017 conference in Rotorua. With of 450 delegates hearing about operational implementation and future opportunities that will see improvements in the way harvest...
by David Herries | Jul 12, 2017 | Forest Inventory, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s General Manager and Lake Okareka Rural Fire Force Deputy Station Officer FENZ Rural, David Herries will be providing insights into use #UAV #Drones during 2016/17 #fire season at #FRFANZ (#UFBA) conference 1-4 August 2017 in Auckland. After...
by David Herries | Jul 11, 2017 | Forest Inventory, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
“rise of the #forest #drones” Interpine’s UAV team leader spoke recently at the FIEA HarvestTech 2017 conference in Rotorua. With of 450 delegates hearing about operational implementation and future opportunities that will see improvements in the way...
by David Herries | Jul 4, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GPS, UAV's / Drones
We often get asked about the extent in which a drone can map a #forest, how large is too large? It often comes down to careful planning and processing to help answer this question, and every scenario can be different. Here is an example of 533ha of forest mapped using...
by David Herries | Jun 28, 2017 | Forest Inventory, UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s UAV team preparing for the upcoming radiata pine planting season across our plantations in New Zealand. Targeting to ease the distribution of #forest #seedlings for #planting with our #UAV / #Dronestechnology. Distribution of planting boxes to those...
by David Herries | Jun 22, 2017 | Cloud Services, Harvesting, Health and Safety, STICKS, UAV's / Drones
Interpine #UAV / #Drone and Harvesting Performance Systems team part of the field day showing recent advances in the harvesting technology being used and deployed into our #forest industry in New Zealand. This is coverage from #TVNZ One News reviewing the technology...
by David Herries | Jun 22, 2017 | Cloud Services, UAV's / Drones
Our #UAV / #Drone team monitoring invasive weed at New Zealand’s #Hydro lakes, helping reduce the disruption to our power supply using #NIR(near infrared) imagery and the skills of GIS team for semi-automated classification for management of this risk to power...
by David Herries | May 29, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, Training, UAV's / Drones
Great to be training another set of 10 #Forestry #Supervisors this last week deploying the #DJI #MavicPro #Phantom4bringing #UAV / #Drones / RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) to be a regular tool being used by our field foresters with our Forest #Industry here...
by David Herries | May 29, 2017 | Training, UAV's / Drones
Great to be training another set of 10 #Forestry #Supervisors this last week deploying the DJI Australia and New Zealand #MavicPro #Phantom4bringing #UAV / #Drones to be a regular tool being used by our field foresters with our Forest #Industry here in New Zealand....
by David Herries | May 24, 2017 | Company Updates, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, LiDAR, PlotSafe, UAV's / Drones, Valuation, Value Recovery, YTGEN
Great to again be participating in another #careers #expo, this time in Hawkes Bay promoting the #forest industry with the Hawkes Bay #ForestryGroup (collective of forest companies in the region) and our Interpine team to our next generation of forest scientists,...
