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...
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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....
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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