by David Herries | May 22, 2017 | Forest Health, Forest Inventory, Harvesting, UAV's / Drones
Our Interpine head office in #Near #Infrared 360 panoramic. Just a small example of a narrow wavelength combined image in Green, Blue, and #NIR(in the red channel). These sensors are mounted on our #UAV #Droneplatforms for the detection of vegetation and/or indicators...
by David Herries | May 15, 2017 | Forest Inventory, UAV's / Drones
Start precisely managing your in #forest #quarry stock #volumes with #Drones #UAV. This removes some of the unknown to enable better planning around your forest engineering projects. And with recent experience this also helps being able to react in a timely manner to...
by David Herries | May 1, 2017 | Forest Health, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, Health and Safety, Maori Forestry, UAV's / Drones
In the wake of Cyclone Cook and Cycle Debbie, Interpine’s UAV Team have are busy getting out to fly storm damaged blocks for insurance and salvage, as well as assessing roading/slips for access and recovery purposes. This provides key insights into repairing...
by David Herries | Apr 27, 2017 | UAV's / Drones
Our UAV team have been busy out monitoring the recent impacts of the #storm damage across #forests estates using #Drones #UAV. This provides key insights into repairing and assessing damage from the recent cyclones #CycloneDebbie #CycloneCook.
by David Herries | Apr 19, 2017 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
A profile view of an airborne #LiDAR (light blue) dataset from 1200m AGL vs #UAV / #Drone photo derived structure from motion #SFM digital surface model #DSM (dark blue) for a young plantation stand of Pinus radiata. Impressive just how well these datasets line up...
by David Herries | Apr 15, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, UAV's / Drones
An example of our remote sensing team using the Esri #ArcGIS Full Motion Video addin from #UAV #Drone video collected by our UAV’s. In this case providing the ability to map features direct from the video feed taken by the UAV within ArcGIS desktop. Thus...
by David Herries | Mar 28, 2017 | Training, UAV's / Drones
Interpine #UAV team have spent the last week providing hands on #Drone Training for the @newzealandfireservice #USARteam with a range of DJI multirotors. In partnership with Massey University School of Aviation to certify their CAA RPAS wings certificates, it was...
by David Herries | Feb 15, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, UAV's / Drones
Excited to announce Interpine is now part of the #Esri Partner Network. This strengths our support for our clients across our #GIS services.
by David Herries | Feb 14, 2017 | GIS and Mapping, 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 | Dec 21, 2016 | Forest Health, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Exploring the benefits of capturing #multispectral imagery of the forest using #UAV / #Drones. Shown here are our UAV team using the MicaSense RedEdge sensor with our DJI Matrice 100. Sensors such as this allow for more advanced remote sensing analysis by our GIS...
by David Herries | Dec 19, 2016 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, UAV's / Drones
Silvicultural Inventory Using #Drones / #UAV – quantifying tree stocking and heights. Using drone based imagery and structure from motion photogrammetry, our remote sensing team combine an existing digital terrain model to allows forest managers to complete pre...
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...
