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,...
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.
