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...