by David Herries | Mar 14, 2018 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
New Zealand Minister of Forestry,Hon Shane Jones recently visited our Remote Sensing and #UAV #Drone team in #Rotorua. Sarah Pitcher-Campbell and Chris Scoggins demonstrated how innovative our industry is in the use of remote sensing technology...
by David Herries | Mar 8, 2018 | UAV's / Drones
Great work to our #UAV team, just over 3500 #flights now completed across New Zealand. Here is a neat view of the all our flight logs over the last couple of years. This is a key component of our CAA 102 certification ensuring all flights are logged and pilots flight...
by David Herries | Mar 1, 2018 | UAV's / Drones, Wildfire
Great to have our #UAV #drone and remote sensing team making a difference in fire management again this season, conducting thermal IR surveys across some 2500ha of fire ground on the Chatham Islands. Here is some of the feedback from the incident controllers…....
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...
