PSLOG Export to Excel > Troubleshooting
PSLOG is used by many of our users inside our Cloud Remote Desktop Service. Some users have reported an issue where they get an error message when exporting some of the PSLOG reporting to EXCEL. This could appear as an OLE Error message such as shown below. The...
Sharing Files / Folders with Your Forestry Contractors Using Microsoft Office 365
As a forest manager using our cloud services, you can use Microsoft 365 OneDrive and SharePoint to set up folders for contractors to access information or just provide them with a link to a place to upload their data or files. For example, you might have a harvest...
Building a Stronger Team: National Certificates Awarded
Building a stronger team as part of our #COVID19 response objectives. Great to have some of the teams NZQA Competenz National Certificates coming through from all their hard work during our COVID19 Level 4 lockdown early this year. Interpine ran a range...
Edge Trees – An Important Consideration for Forest Inventory
When comparing edge trees with "normal" trees (found inside a stand) it becomes obvious they can be significantly different. A generalisation is often that edge trees are shorter and fatter (greater taper) and also tend to have large branching. An...
Edge Plots: Walkthrough Mirage Alternative to the Plot Mirror Mirage Method in PlotSafe
Existing popular methods such as the "plot mirage method" (Schmid-Haas, 1969) for eliminating bias due to boundary overlap suffer some disadvantages in practical use; having to establish a duplicate plot outside the forest edge which might not always be possible...
Edge Plots – Forest Inventory Procedures Using PlotSafe
Before engaging staff in the field, an appropriate inventory planning step will save time and cost of the resulting forest inventory, as well as improve sample accuracy and precision. An element often missed when conduction forest inventories are dealing with forest...
Colourised LiDAR View of our Rotorua Head Office From Hovermap Backpack
#3D #pointcloud colourised view of our Rotorua Head Office as we put to work the #Hovermap #LiDAR from Emesent. Our team were also out scanning a range of permanent sample plots, some of which were close to 50m tall #radiata pine. These were scanned in 3D from a walk...
How to Create QC Plots for a Planting Event in GeoMaster with ArcGIS
Considering what forest inventory design to use for QC? When considering a forest inventory, as foresters we often need to create a sample plot layout across of net stocked area. There is a range of options available to the user in selecting the type of sampling...
A Glimpse of Interpine’s Thermal Drones and their Sensors Capability
Interpine operates a range of thermal sensors on our fleet of UAV's (Unmanned aerial vehicles). Just a quick look at some of the sensors and their capability. Thermal Infrared Sensors The DJI Zenmuse XT2 sensor (shown above on our Matrice 210 RTK Drone), is a FLIR...
Running Two Monitors (Screens) in our Cloud Services Remote Desktop?
It is a simple process to be able to run remote desktop across two screens. This is useful when using applications like ATLAS GeoMaster as it provides for having GIS or Microsoft Office Applications on one screen and GeoMaster on the other. On the other hand, you...
Print from your Remote Desktop to your local printer ?
Often you will want to print a map, report or document from the Remote Desktop Environment. You will just need to ensure you select this option prior to connecting to the Remote Desktop Connection. Edit Remote Desktop Connection Select Local Resources Tab Tick...
Understanding the Look and Feel of the Remote Desktop Environment
Some of the features of Interpine's Cloud Computing services means you are logging in to a remote desktop session. This article aims to provide you with an orientation of this environment. The Remote Desktop This is a familiar Microsoft Windows operating system...
Connect to the Interpine Cloud Remote Desktop Services
Accessing the Remote Desktop Environment uses Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection application which comes preinstalled in all modern Microsoft Windows operating systems. For Android, Apple iOS or macOS you can download the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection from...
Interpine Partners with Planet to Provide Access to High Frequency Satellite Imagery
Having introduced the use of the Planet Satellite Imagery to the forestry sector in 2017, Interpine is pleased to announce we have extended our capability by partnering with Planet to offer support and ease of access to high-frequency, high-resolution satellite...
Using Planet’s High-frequency Satellite Imagery in ESRI GIS Platforms for Forestry Management
Join this webinar to listen to our own Sarah Pitcher-Campbell discuss how the forest industry is using high cadence Planet imagery to plan and monitor forestry operations. Wednesday 15th July at 11am NZT (UTC+12), this is a free, virtual roundtable on how government...
Adding the Emesent Hovermap SLAM LiDAR Solution to our Services
We are proud to have recently purchased the Emesent #Hovermap #Hovermap #LiDAR simultaneous location and mapping #SLAM) solution to better serve our clients. This unit enhances our #forest #inventory, #drone #UAV and LiDAR services providing a glimpse that the future...
Operational Immersive Visualisation and Measurement of Dense Point Cloud Data in Forest Inventory
Interpine starts a new 2-year project working with Forest Wood Products Australia on operational immersive visualisation and measurement of dense point cloud data in forest inventory. This new project extends on work started in 2016, and involves working alongside...
Automated Cutover Mapping with Satellite Imagery – Case Study
How Interpine helped Pan Pac Forest Products save time and improve the accuracy of harvest reports with high-frequency Planet imagery. Click here to download PDF version of the full case study. MONITORING THE FOREST HARVESTING FROM SPACE Led by consultation...
Juniper Allegro 3 under testing for use in Forestry
Our team are reviewing the latest Juniper Systems device for Forest Inventory, Conservation projects and Log Scaling operations. Juniper Allegro's have been a goto device for rugged forestry applications and it is great to have the latest version running Android out...
LUCAS National Planted Forest Inventory 2020
2020 #LUCAS (Land Use Carbon Analysis System) training for #Planted #Forest National #Inventory underway using #MicrosoftTeams bringing our staff across the country together online. NZ’s #Carbon Inventory for Ministry for the Environment & working together with...
Our 15 Year Journey with LiDAR Presenting as Keynote Speaker at Arizona LiDAR Virtual Symposium
Our remotesensing team leader, Sarah Pitcher-Campbell is looking forward to presenting as the keynote speaker at the LIDAR Virtual Symposium hosted by the Arizona Geographic Information Council (AGIC) tomorrow, looking at how LiDAR is used throughout NZ.
Development of 3D LiDAR Tree Feature Extraction for Forest Inventory Assessment
Wondering what the future of Forest Inventory looks like from Interpine? An example of Interpine's automated extraction of 3D tree profiles and measurement. Shaping today's forests with the technology of tomorrow. Want to find out more, reach out to our team and...
Managed Service for Infield Electronic Data Capture of Vegetation Data Collected by DOC
We are excited to be working with the Department of Conservation (DOC) on the development of a Managed Service for infield electronic data capture of vegetation data collected by DOC for the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) Land Use Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS)...
Webinar – Explore the Use of HoverMap LiDAR for Forest Inventory
Emesent Hovermap's versatility, ease of use and data quality are set to be a game-changer for forestry management. On Thursday the 14 of May we are teaming up with Emesent, to bring you a webinar focused on the applications of Hovermap for forestry resource inventory...
Building a Stronger Team through COVID-19 Level-4
We are in our 3rd week of COVID-19 Level 4 here in New Zealand. As a business we are focused on taking this opportunity to Build a Stronger Team. Our operational staff are focused on Online #Forest #Training using #MicrosoftTeams to connect and work through...
COVID-19 Staying at Home, Save Lives, Get Back to Work Quicker
And the Winner of the Interpine Isolation Day 1 Safe Start Selfie ......Caleb Strickland. A Hunting and Fishing voucher is heading his way. In all seriousness, the health and well being of our staff is paramount throughout this extremely difficult and unique time. We...
COVID19 – We Are At Work in the Cloud, We Can Help You Work in the Cloud
During these unique and difficult times, our main priority is supporting our staff and clients while ensuring the safety and well-being of all. With this in mind we continue to offer our same great services, just from home instead of the Interpine office. We are...
Conducting Tree Nursery Seedling Inventories Using Drones
Have You Got Enough Trees in Your Tree Nursery for this Planting Seasons Orders? Interpine continues to fly its drones for forest nursery owners to provide a complete inventory of the seedlings in stock. While traditional approaches have been based on sampling the...
New Year, New Skills? Start Using Drones in Your Job, Next Course 16-20 March 2020
New Year, New Skills? Start using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV / Drones / RPAS) across the forestry, environmental, industrial and rural fire sectors. This 5-day Wings Badge course is a partnership between Massey University School of Aviation and Interpine Innovation...
Timberlands NZ Health and Safety Award – Worker Recognition 2020
Health and Safety Award - Worker Recognition Award presented by Timberlands to Adrian Moke (AJ as we all know him), our Forest Inventory Operations Manager. AJ was 1 of only 4 individuals recognised across all contractors within the Timberlands estate during the...
Interpine Staff Proudly Support Our Colleagues During Wildfires in Australia
Proud of our team supporting the Australian fire suppression efforts over the last couple months, with Sarah Pitcher-Campbell deployed to assist providing GIS Analyst Support for Incident Management Teams based in NSW, and Patrick de Jong deployed to assist on the...
New Forest Scanning Systems Tested
For the love of #trees, our teams love of #Environment #Forestry and #LiDAR combine with our recent work to step up virtual #forest #inventory with new scanning systems and analysis techniques. Our team continues to innovate in the assessment of...
Interpine Winner of Timberland’s Environmental Award for 2019
Proud of the team picking up the Timberlands Environmental Award Winner for 2019 at the annual contractors meeting recently. This was in recognition of the development of mapping systems to locate wildfire hotspots with the assistance of drones and infrared cameras,...
Changing Forest Inventory as we know it!
Our Director, David Herries recently spoke at ForestTech 2019 in both Melbourne and Rotorua. He covered how technology is changing the way Forest Inventory and Tree Assessment is being done. This short clip provides an example of the virtual reality systems which are...
3D LiDAR Terrain Model Carved from Laminated Wood
Visualising LiDAR 3D Terrain Models in Wood. Thanks to some teamwork with Scion wood lab our team recently provided a client with a LiDAR-derived 3D terrain model carved from laminated wood. This unique way of visualising a landscape doubles the meaning of using...
Deriving DTM using Machine Learning from Drone SFM 3D Models
Another look at some of our offices for the day. This time our professional CAA 102 certified #UAV #drone teams completing an aerial survey of a forest area to be replanted over the winter. Providing updated #DTM using #machinelearning for deriving terrain models...
Wildfire Management as an GIS Analyst in a National Incident Response Team
Patrick de Jong talking on #Wildfire Incident Management from a Fire and Emergency NZ #GIS analyst perspective around the Nelson fires in Feb 2019, great operational use and learnings of ArcGIS, Avenza Maps and FireMapper #ESRI #nzeuc New Zealand ESRI User Conference...
ESRI Field Mobility Apps, Webhooks, and Microsoft Flow Workflows Presented as NZ EUC 2019
Our GM, David Herries showing Field Mobilty with #ESRI mobile apps, operational dashboards, and use of #webhooks to load data into organisational databases with #Microsoft #Flow with #PowerBI for advanced analysis. #nzeuc ESRI New Zealand Conference 2019.
Drones, More than a Flight of Fancy in Forestry – NZ Logger Article
In Sept 2018, Interpine featured in the NZ Logger Magazine, profiling the work being conducted with UAV's / drones across the forest industry in New Zealand. It's the way of the future. And it's here now. Next-generation foresters will grow up with drones in the...
Care to Avoid Loss of Subcanopy LiDAR Data through Noise Classficiation Algorthims
The capture and use of high density LiDAR data across forest plantations requires a good understanding of the final output. Sometimes this output is only a digital terrain model and or other times it is to quantify forest attributes, such as mean top height, DBH,...
Latest Forest Industry Drone Pilots Ready for Flight
Another group of 13 #foresters completing their #drone introductory wings badge CAR101 course with our #UAV team and Massey School of Aviation this week. Great to see adoption of drone technology as a tool and the forestry industry leading by example and adopting best...
Hosting a Precision Ag Tour Group from Malaysia
We had a group from a Precision Agricultural Study Tour: New Zealand Series 2019. The group from Malaysia, travelling with Professor Ian Yule from PlantTech got insights into our work with Airborne LiDAR, and the use of drones in the forest industry. Thanks to Susana...
Drone Based Industrial Inspections Helping the Pulp and Paper Industry
Another one of our teams offices for the day, our #Drone crews doing #industrial inspections in hard to reach places creating efficiencies across the #forestry supply chain for #pulping facilities in New Zealand.
Virtual Reality Forest Inventory – Tree Quality Assessment – May 2019 Update
Full Forest Inventory Tree Assessment using Virtual Reality (VR). Data is collected using LiDAR and then field assessment is done within Virtual Reality. Another iteration in the development of field assessment using VR using a point cloud collected from above...
3D Modelling Forest for Harvesting Productivity Studies
An example of structure from motion modelling of a forest just prior to harvest. This is a 3D point cloud generated from drone / UAV camera imagery, which is then used in studying the efficiency and productivity of harvesting operations. It is hard to step back and...
LiDAR Project Started Acquiring and Processing 1.35 million ha in Victoria Australia
Our team is excited this month to be starting the acquisition and processing of 1.35 million hectares of #LiDAR across #Victoria #Australia. This data-set will support updates to mapping old growth #forests and #rainforest throughout #Victoria for Department of...
The Importance of GIS in Vegetation / Wildfire Events – ESRI RUC 2019
Patrick de Jong in our team presenting use of Esri #GIS during the Nelson Fires this last summer at the #ESRI Regional User Conference in Whakatane, April 2019. A great insight into the importance of GIS in emergencies and how our remote sensing team are involved.
GIS ANALYST – Opportunity to Join the Team
GIS Analyst The Company: Interpine Group Ltd (Interpine) is a forest and land use consulting and data management company based in Rotorua. We specialise in information technology and are experts in forestry data management systems, GIS, LiDAR, remote sensing,...
So Proud of our Women, Working to Help Our Communities in Nelson Fires 2019
So proud of our women, working to help our communities during the recent 2019 Nelson fires, from Sarah being part of the Incident Management Team as their GIS mapping specialist, to Jayne piloting thermal sensor drones with Amber from Lake Okareka Rural Fire Force...
A look at the Nelson Fires 2019, Pre and Post Satellite Imagery Analysis on the Impacts
This web map compares Pre and Post fire, 3m resolution satellite imagery, of the of the Pigeon Valley Fire 2019, Nelson area. The imagery uses the the near-infrared band. Using this display helps the burnt areas stand out to the naked eye. The deep red colour...
Interpine Achieves 100% Quality Rating for National LUCAS Carbon Inventory
Interpine has completed its 3rd year of a 5 year program to measure New Zealand's National Plantation Forestry Carbon Inventory. Plots have been established or re-measured across the country since 2007 and this current program is the 3rd year of a 5 year program, on...
Thermal Infrared Pest Monitoring and Detection Using Drones
Drone / UAV flights at night for monitoring and assisting pest eradication operations at a Wildlife Sanctuary Reserve in Hawkes Bay. This shows the ability of a drone fitted with a high resolution thermal imaging camera, being able to locate, identify and then geo-tag...
Monitoring Traps Using Drones to Aid Pest Free New Zealand
Interpine Innovation helping New Zealand Predator Free 2050. Monitoring of pests for the purposes of controlling or eradicating populations is a key component in management of wildlife sanctuary reserves throughout New Zealand. Interpine Innovation strives to not...
Improving the Modelling of Forest Harvesting through Drones Studies
Developing tree breakage models is a key parameter in the modelling of forest yield. To model the height at which a stem breaks during harvesting and before log-making can start, allows for correct allocation of recoverable stem volume in which logs can be made...
Industrial Inspection Using Drones at Pulping Facilities
Our team have been working across industries with the deployment of drones / UAV's for industrial inspection. Drones are an effective way of getting visual reports from places where it is difficult to place humans. A recent example is the assessment of the...
Graduates of our Drone training succeeding out in the forest
Great to see graduates of our fly your own drone for foresters programme using these new effective tools out there in the forest. Acacia Farmery completed our CAA Part 101 drone operators training and earned her “CAA Wings Badge” certification. Acacia Farmery readies...
Demostration of Virtual Reality Forest Inventory at ForestTech 2018
Interpine team recently presented and demonstrated at ForestTech 2018 the use of virtual reality for in forest inventory. While the system can use terrestrial LiDAR the focus was on using utra dense point clouds from airborne sensors flying above the tree canopy....
Renewal of CAA CAR102 Drone Operations Certification for Next 5 Years
Congratulations to our team for a successful audit and re-certification of our drones operations working under the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of NZ. The team showed their professionalism and attention to detail throughout the re-certification process and this...
Meet the Team at ForestTech 2018
Interpine will again be along at ForestTech 2018, being held in Rotorua and Melbourne this November. Come along and hear about our latest advances in Virtual Reality, LiDAR and Drone applications across the forest industry.
Use of UAV / Drones for Wildfire Operations Profiled at WAFA Conference in Wellington
Patrick and Chris from our UAV / Drone operations and remote sensing team presenting at Women & Fire Fighting Australasia Inc Conference 2018 in Wellington this week. They were part of a workshop series at Wellington airport hanger looking at highlighting Air...
Interpine helping with North American Wildfires in Canada
Interpine's General Manager, David Herries recently took some time out from overseeing Interpine's Innovative team and deployed into British Columbia, Canada to help with the wildfires over the 2018 summer. Outside of his role with Interpine, David is also a...
Virtual reality experiments in Rotorua could replace forestry field work
The forestry industry has been experimenting with virtual reality in Rotorua this week to develop new ways of measuring tree growth. The University of Tasmania and Interpine are carrying out the research, which is partially funded by Forest and Wood Products...
Tree Seedling Delivery using Drones becomes a Reality
#Drone / #UAV #Tree #Seedlings #Delivery for #Forestry #Plantation establishment in steep hill country in #NewZealand. Significant reduction in risk of slip, trip, fall and back strain incidents while increasing productivity through reduced downtime. While pizza...
Multispectral Mapping of Invasive Aquatic Weed Using Drones / UAV
ESRI StoryMap of Drone UAV based Invasive Lake Weed Mapping and Management for Hydropower Generation. In this example our UAV team are mapping the area of surface weed (Lagarosiphon and Hornwort) beds or floating rafts on Lake Rotoaira, New Zealand. ...
UAV / Drone Insights – Gravity Roller Crushing Supervision
An example video of using #RPAS / #Drone / #UAV technology for supervision and safe behavior observations during a gorse conversion project for the establishment plantation #forestry in New Zealand. A single rope gravity #roller #crusher is being used in this case....
Interpines’ Latest Drone, Detects then Warns of Incoming Aircraft
This is an example of the maturing in drones to make safe use our airspace while ensuring we get the benefits of drone technology. Watch this video to see Interpine latest DJI Matrice 210 RTK drone detect and warn the pilot of an incoming manned aircraft. Automatic...
Satellite Imagery of the 2018 Tolaga Bay Floods
Interpines' skilled remote sensing team showing the effectiveness of high resolution before and after satellite imagery for the flooding that recently affected Tolaga Bay in the Gisborne region of New Zealand. High resolution satellite coverage is now almost daily in...
Watching a Forest be Harvested from Space Using Daily Satellite Imagery
Watch a forest in New Zealand be harvested from space, using the latest in remote sensing technology. Monitoring forest activity is a key element of forest management. Timely information enables better decision making and reconciliation leading to better value...
Effectiveness of Drones Shown During Civil Defense Emergency
Great to have the effectiveness and professionalism of our #UAV / #Drone team highlighted with direct acknowledgment from the Hon Steve Chadwick, Mayor of Rotorua. Our team recently provided support for the #emergency and #civildefence response to help our local...
STICKS Harvesting System – Making a Footprint in Sweden / Finland
Our Harvesting Performance Services manager Ian Wilson is currently in Finland / Sweden looking at better approaches and opportunities to enhance #forest #machinery #training for existing and new operators entering our industry. Learning through simulation is a key...
Simulator Training for Machine Operation
Great to see the next generation of machine operators training in the world leading #forest #harvesting #simulator suite at Toi-Oho-Mai Instution of Technology Rotorua. Interpine have been donating support to this program as part of our harvesting performance systems...
Introductory Drone / UAV Training Course: 18-22 June 2018
Interpine is continuing to provide a pathway for the adoption and wider deployment of #DJI #MavicPro #Phantom4 #UAV / #Drones, RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) to be a regular tool being used by our field foresters within our Forest #Industry here in New...
Using High Cadance (Daily) Satellite Imagery for Forest Monitoring
Our remote sensing team profiling the benefits of 3m resolution daily #CubeSats #satellite #imagery for post storm event analysis for the #NZ #forestry sector. An example of 3m resolution satellite imagery of a flooding event. Pre and post imagery of the event. ...
Collaborative Forestry Remote Sensing Data Acquisition Campaign
Interpine, together with the researchers involved in a current FWPA funded remote sensing project have published a video of the recent data acquisition campaign at the Carabost State Forest P. radiata plantation in southern NSW. Teams from NSW DPI, University of...
Wood Chip Pile Volumes – Making a Difference with Drone Technology
See, measure, and monitor forest wood chip piles as they grown & shrink with Drones / UAV and photogrammetry technology. Remember making a difference with technology is more important than the technology itself. There are many ground breaking technological parts...
UAV’s and Harvesting Operations
Our #uav team improving value recovery from #forest #harvestingoperations using Esri #fullmotionvideo technology in field studies with DJI #drones. Showing the industry new ways to do previously difficult and time consuming tasks.
MobileTECH 2018
Our GM David Herries gave a practitioners view as a key note speaker this week at the primary sectors #MobileTECH2018 conference in Rotorua, NZ. Reviewing how digital technology impacts on the forestry sector and how the industry is moving forward and making progress...
STICKS making its way to Canada
Its not (just) about the processor.... Our #STICKS #harvester #woodflow management system now making a splash in #forest harvest in British Columbia #Canada by allowing for better value extraction & woodflow for the forest company, & better productivity...
UAV for Seedling Counts
Millions of #tree #nursery seedlings counted using our #Drone / #UAV based #inventory. #remotesensing technology helping to keep an eye on the New Zealand vision of "one billion trees target in the next 10 years"
UAV Training Course – March 2018
Our #UAV #Drone team working alongside Massey University School of Aviation has recently completed training and certification of another 12 #foresters from throughout NZ whom are taking drones into their workplace to make forest operations and monitoring more...
A Visit with the Minister of Forestry
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...
ForestTech X Conference – Canada
Ian Wilson, our Harvesting Performance Services Manager recently presented alongside Austimber Harvesting contractor Ian Reid and Waratah Managing Director Jules Larsen on the benefits of using forest harvester information at the recent tech transfer ForestTechX...
ForestTechX – Canada 2018
Great day in #Vancouver #Canada with our remote sensing team leading a #workshop as part of #ForesttechX conference with rapidlasso. Providing insights into using #Lidar for enhanced #forest #inventory with #LAStoolsand Interpine’s forest yield imputation area based...
3500 UAV Flights
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...
Thermal IR Drone Deployment to Chatham Islands Fire
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.... “Your...
LiDAR Research in New South Wales
Our team capturing #LiDAR data using the #Riegl #VUX-1LR over radiata pine #forest in New South Wales forest last week. This is part of our remote sensing programs being conducted both here in New Zealand and Australia, with our research and airborne partners. Watch...
Drones Used for Dunedin Fire
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,...
UAV Team Southland Fire Deployment
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. ...
Advances in Remote Sensing Presented at Forest Growers Conference
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...
3-D Print – a new way to visualize your forest
Our #remotesensing team pushing a new way to #visualize your forest and help with planning and #engineering with #3D models. #3Dprinting #forest #LiDAR
Drones and Helicopters – shared work
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...
CAA 102 Certification for Interpine’s Unmanned Aerial Drone Services
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...
LiDAR – seeing the forest for the trees
Seeing the #forest for the #trees, explore and #visualize #LiDAR in #3D of your forest and see how the #data provides estimates of forest #yield. https://goo.gl/cCwHaA Share this link with your teams and help foresters understand the ability of LiDAR to describe the...
Drone Tech Profiled on #TVNZ as a Leading Innovator in Forestry Sector
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
ForestTech 2017 – Drones in the Forestry Sector
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...
Forest LiDAR – What Are We Looking At
So what are LiDAR point clouds? Our team look at and analyze this type of data to regenerate estimates of forest yield. But not many foresters actually get to look and see the detail behind all the numbers. Want to enjoy the fascination and immerse yourself in a...
UAV / Drones in Forestry – Reaching for a New Perspection
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...
Using Drones for Pest Management – a possibility
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...
Potential of Using UAV / Drones for Pest Control ?
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...
UAV’s Useful in Woodchip Stocktakes
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...