by David Herries | Feb 5, 2018 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Our #UAV #drone team again around the country this week working with Fire and Emergency NZ and Lake Okareka Rural Fire Force in Dunedin. Providing updated fire ground maps, thermal hotspot surveys, and training ground crews on use of mapping apps on their smartphones,...
by David Herries | Jan 30, 2018 | UAV's / Drones
The #UAV #Drone team were recently deployed with Lake Okareka Rural Fire Force to Southland last week, clearing hotspots and providing updated fire maps for the Fire and Emergency NZ firefighters on the ground. ...
by David Herries | Jan 19, 2018 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
A recent video interview with our General Manager, David Herries after speaking at the #Forest Growers Research conference in Christchurch NZ. As New Zealand’s largest #UAV service provider to the forest industry, we are already using UAV’s for a whole suite of forest...
by David Herries | Dec 18, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Working alongside Fire and Emergency NZ, the Interpine #UAV team are putting #drones & helicopters to work together during #fire #attack. Combined, fire mapping and #hotspot detection use the smarts of the drone such as full motion video mapping as we have come to...
by David Herries | Dec 12, 2017 | UAV's / Drones
Our team UAV / Drone team continue to lead by example within the forest industry; having recently been certified last month with CAA Part 102 operating privileges. Being the first forestry and/or rural fire related UAV provider to do so in New Zealand. These...
by David Herries | Nov 24, 2017 | UAV's / Drones
Interpine’s #UAV #Drone technology profiled on #TVNZ as a leading innovator to improve #safety, workloads, and the way we manage our forests in the New Zealand #Forest Industry. https://youtu.be/To8aMe3SZ0A
by David Herries | Nov 17, 2017 | UAV's / Drones
Great to see safety is a big focus for #uav #drone use in the #forestry sector. #Timberlands Forest Engineer Hazel Swanson talking about practical benefits of drones for forest engineering after the last 6 months putting drones to work in the forest, and the...
by David Herries | Nov 13, 2017 | Forest Health, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Because of the scale involved in forestry, both time and area, mathematics has always been heavily employed so foresters can take samples and calculate averages or make predictions on the growth or yield of their crop. With the advent of increasingly usable and...
by David Herries | Nov 7, 2017 | UAV's / Drones
Students at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology have worked with Interpine to look at potential of #UAV / #Drones and remote sensing to help with pest control operations. UAVs flown over forests and remnant bush sites, particularly those not currently receiving any...
by David Herries | Nov 7, 2017 | Forest Health, UAV's / Drones
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and remote image sensing cameras have considerable potential for use in pest control operations. UAVs equipped with remote sensing cameras could be flown over forests and remnant bush sites, particularly those not currently receiving...
by David Herries | Nov 2, 2017 | Forest Inventory, 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 fiber...
by David Herries | Nov 2, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Forestry felling stem breakage studies with #ESRI Full Motion Video Mapping technology enhances the way we can monitor and develop models with data collected with #drones #UAV in the #Forest. youtu.be/V9VmZbvaIQA
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...
