Harvest Cutover Residue Assessment > History
Over the years many of our clients from forest owners, harvesting crews and forest supervisors have asked about harvest cutover assessment methodology. Many have struggled with the concept of the line intersect sampling procedure, so I thought it might pay to document...
Harvest Planning with the GeoMaster Harvest Manager
ATLAS Harvest Manager provides the company with a centralised system for managing all the harvest areas within the estate. It enables the harvest planner to record planned harvest areas years into the future, track the changes in state as the areas are prepared for...
Visually Map Forest Operations – Without a GIS Team
Recently we were introducing GeoMaster to a new client, and one thing that stood out was making the GIS easy to use for the operational foresters and supervisors. Often as a forester you need or get asked to provide managers, forest owners and yourself with maps, to...
Monitoring Harvest Cutover Progress with GeoMaster
Harvesting markups is a regular task carried out by most forest managers. This can be: an eyeball assessment sketched on a map, walking the boundary with a GPS, using offset waypoints with a GPS and rangefinder, or using an aerial flyover and photographs. Doing this...
Monitoring Forest Operations Progress with GeoMaster
One of the regular tasks a forest operations supervisor will need to do is keep an eye on progress of their operations. As well as needing to update progress to assist in planning, this is often critical for contractor or forest manager invoicing and payments on a...
Running MicroMARVL DOS based Programs in Win7 or Win8
Some of the well proven software applications such as MicroMarvl, or StandPak developed by NZ Forest Research Institute Ltd (now referred to as Scion Research), are still being used today by the odd user which often has the principles "if it aren't broke don't fix...
Understanding Biometric Methods in YTGEN
New users often ask, what biometric methods are supported by YTGEN? In the forest industry most people consider these are functions or equations used to model the shape, volume, and inside bark diameter at any point on the stem. These are used in the log-making...
Joint NZIF/APPITA Annual Dinner – 15 August 2013
The annual joint NZIF/Appita technical meeting will be held in Rotorua's Copthorne Hotel on Thursday 15th August 2013. This not to be missed event will feature a talk by Interpine's Managing Director Mike King. Mike is an experienced forester and entreupeneur and is a...
ETS – Pre90 Forest Land Owner Update – Aug 2013
A quick update for land owners of Pre-90 forest, as it relates to the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme. By now you have received the second and final tranche of NZUs for your Pre 1990 allocation. These units have been transferred into your holding account from the Crown....
ETS – Post89 Registered Forest Owner Update – Aug 2013
A quick update for forest owners of registered post-89 forest, as it relates to the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme. Post 1989 Mandatory Return Entitlement By now you would have received your carbon credit entitlement for the 2008-2012 period (five years) claimed under...
Progressively Monitor Forest Cutting Right Transfer with GeoMaster
Several of our Forest Management Cloud Services clients have been asking for easier ways to manage and keep information on forestry cutting rights prior to landowners or the next forest manager receiving back the land for the next rotation. Common examples are when a...
Using PSLog in the Forest Management Cloud
PSLog is now available in the Cloud (provided online by way of Cloud Computing SaaS). PSLog has proven itself over the years as an easy to use, reliable and cost effective harvesting and logistics software system. It provides management information that facilitates...
Managing Risks across your Forest with GeoMaster
A forest manager or forest owner is often confronted with needing to manage risks found across their estate. It is important their staff when planning operations are aware of these risks. The Risk Manager within GeoMaster enables details about GIS based risk features...
Benefits of Microsoft Office 365 in the Forest Management Cloud
Interpine's Forest Management Cloud Service also includes Microsoft's Office 365. When managing forests, you have a wide range of documents and information. This can range from GIS to EXCEL, WORD, PDF's, Photos and more. You need somewhere to store this and link back...
Understanding NZTM Grid Co-ordinates
If you were ever wondering what those NZTM Co-ordinates (New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 projection grid coordinates) on your GPS actually mean, you are likely not the only one. Many people use these every day without actually knowing much about them. For example...
A Simple Way of Creating Forest Inventory Plot Maps
Forest Managers need to sample their forest for a range of operations from quality control to resource assessment. This often involves putting in a sample plot network, creating a map for use in field and loading these points into a GPS for use to navigate in the...
Sampling Error for Nearest Neighbour Imputation of Stand Attributes using LiDAR
A team of researchers at Interpine recently completed a case study where stand attributes were derived from field measurements and LiDAR data using an approach known as nearest neighbor (kNN) imputation. The study was highly successful and produced unbiased and...
Discover the Cloud for Forest Management at NZIF Conference 2013
Sarah Pitcher-Campbell and Peter Auge will be presenting our Cloud Computing Services for Forest Management at the upcoming NZ Institute of Forestry 2013 annual conference in Taranaki on the 1-2 July 2013. They will be introducing our unique cloud solution for the...
LiDAR – A Different View of the Interpine Office
An interesting view of our head office in Rotorua using a recent LiDAR dataset. Shown below are a series of images of the LiDAR point cloud and subsequent aerial photo draped over the 3D model created by the LiDAR data. This is just one example of the information...
Remote Sensing for Resource Assessment – FFR Industry Workshop
Hamish Marshall, Jonathan Dash and David Herries from Interpine recently lead a workshop series in collaboration with Future Forest Research and SCION. This covered the use of Remote Sensing for Resource Assessment, and was held in Christchurch and...
Interpine Deploying On-Board Stability Prediction System for Harvest Machinery
Update: This system is now called HarvestNav (Oct 2013) Interpine has recently released for industry testing an on-board harvesting specific navigation system to improve productivity and safety for machines operating in medium to steep terrain. The focus of this...
ETS Support within GeoMaster
GeoMaster provides support for the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) by recording how much of your forest overlaps areas registered as Post 1989 carbon accounting areas (CAAs) and areas classified as Pre 1990 forest land. The ETS support works within...
Calculate 300 Index Values within GeoMaster
The 300 Index is a measure of site productivity, representing the mean annual increment of stem volume of a Radiata crop at age 30 with a stocking of 300 SPH. This is often used for planning forest management activity and monitoring site productivity. ...
Using ATLAS GeoMaster in the Cloud
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available for small to medium forest owners as a cloud computing service (SaaS) provided by Interpine. GeoMaster is a proven forest information system used by large forest owners across New Zealand and Australia. Its user base includes hundreds...
Using ESRI ArcGIS for Desktop with GeoMaster in the Cloud
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available for small to medium forest owners as a cloud computing service (SaaS) provided by Interpine. GeoMaster is a proven forest information system used by large forest owners across New Zealand and Australia. Seamless integration with ESRI...
Using ATLAS GIS Manager with GeoMaster in the Cloud
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available as a cloud service for small and medium forest and land owners, and managers. It enables the forest manager to easily plan, manage, and report on all activity within a forest and land environment, maintaining a history of all events...
How Do Cloud Services Work ? What Does it Actually Mean ?
Cloud services is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted computer based services over the Internet. These services can broadly be divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and...
Comparison of ETS Lookup Tables and FMA Forest Specific Tables
Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) are now releasing formally derived carbon yield lookup tables for participates in the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). These have been created specific to the forest and forest type based on inventory data collected through the...
Country Calendar > Forester Thinks Beyond Radiata
Featured this week on Hyundai Country Calendar, Farm Forester Gabrielle Walton believes landowners should look beyond pine and plant a wider range of timber trees on their farms. She and her parents, Cloie and David Blackley, grow a mix of specialty timbers on...
Interpine Achieves 100% Quality Rating for LUCAS Post-89 Forest Survey
Interpine has completed ahead of time, the Nationwide Forest Carbon Inventory for Re-measurement of Post 1989 Forests completed over the winters of 2011,2012. A total of 202 and 193 plots were established or re-measured across the country in 2011 and 2012...
Forest Edges: Dealing with Plot Mirages in a LiDAR Inventory
Interpine have been doing several research projects looking at the potential of using LiDAR as an auxiliary variable in regression sampling. The results are looking very promising and we have a range of production field trials underway to move the application of LiDAR...
What Accuracy / Precision is Required When Fixing Location of LiDAR Ground Controls
One question that has been raised in the Interpine team in our LiDAR analysis work is; "Just how important is the co-location of the LiDAR and ground survey plots ?" "and hence how much do we have to spend on a GNSS/GPS receivers for fixing LiDAR ground control plots"...
Collecting Tree / Stem Sectional Measurement Data in PlotSafe V1.5.2
A recent feature we have updated in PlotSafe is the representation of diameters recorded at the stem description level. This allows for increasing diameters to be easily recorded against the stem description. Previous versions of PlotSafe had an inbuilt rule not to...
How Accurate Can We Expect Routine Location of Plots Under Forest Canopy Using GPS
Recently, we looked at GPS Precision (EPE). A few questions were also raised about plot location and I thought it might also be good to look at how accurate we could expect to locate the survey point inside the forest under a range of conditions and forest canopies....
Interpine Maintains Tertiary Level ACC Workplace Safety Accreditation
Interpine shows its commitment to the safety within its operations with the recent update of its accreditation for Tertiary Level ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) Worksafe Health & Safety Management System. Interpine's most recent ACC audit procedure was...
GPS Accuracy Estimate (EPE) What is It ?
The use of recreational grade GPS (for example Garmin 60csx or Garmin 62S) is now standard practice for the location of forest inventory plots in New Zealand and Australia. We recently reviewed a few questions regarding the accuracy and precision of these GPS units,...
Diameter Breast Height – Where Does it Start From, Ground Level Right?
A discussion recently arose on "what should be considered as the starting point for measurement of diameter breast height, that is at what point does the stump height / tree stem start". Seems simple doesn't it; "high side of the tree at ground level" Well this forest...
A Move to Variable-Form Tree / Stem Taper Equations
History of Stem / Tree Taper Equation Development Taper equations can be used to provide predictions of inside bark diameter at any point along the tree stem and stem volume based on widely recorded tree dimensions. Equations that can accurately predict tree diameter...
Interpine Conducting a Review of Forest Mensuration Equipment from Haglof Sweden
Interpine is working closely with Halgof Sweden in 2012 to review the cost effectiveness of deployment of a range of Haglof forest mensuration equipment in NZ and Australia. Based in Northern Sweden, Haglof has been developing and building professional measurement...
Guide to PlotSafe Data Collection – ETS Forest Measurement Approach – V1 Released
A freely available publication and data collection template is now available to help forest owners and forest inventory providers with electronically capturing carbon forest inventory data for the MPI Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) Forest Measurement Approach (FMA)....
How Effective are LiDAR-based Forest Inventory Systems ?
ForestTech 2011 has held in late 2011 in both Australia and New Zealand. Interpine's Jonathan Dash and Hamish Marshall presented a discussion on Interpine's involvement in a range of trial work relating to LiDAR analysis. A quick overview of use and role of LiDAR in...
Automated Log Counting: Proof of Concept at SilviLaser 2011
Improving log inventory is a key area where the New Zealand forestry industry could significant improve its supply chain performance. Although the process of counting logs seems relatively simple; in reality it is a difficult and labour intensive job. This is...
PlotSafe to Support Data Collection for ETS Forest Measurement Approach (FMA)
Interpine is working on PlotSafe templates to allow the electronic data collection of ETS Forest Measurement Approach using New Zealands most used Forest Inventory Software. This generic public template will allow users to collect data on windows mobile handheld...
ETS FMA Standardised Inventory Systems for Collection and Analysis
The New Zealand ForestTech 2011 conference was held recently in Rotorua. Interpine's David Herries presented to the delegates a review of a standardised data collection system for electronic collection, storage and export of carbon forest inventory measurement data...
NZ ETS Forest Measurement Approach (FMA) Released
As of 1 Sept 2011, MAF have now released the New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme Forest Measurement Approach (FMA). Participates can now register to apply for their sample locations, and begin to organise field measurement operations. Interpine has been involved in...
Pre-1990 Forest Carbon One-off Allocation Deadline Approaching Fast
The government is providing landowners of eligible pre-1990 forest land with a one-off allocation of free NZ units (NZU's – the unit of trade in the NZ ETS which represents 1 tonne of CO2 emissions). The deadline for this allocation is 30 November 2011. If you own an...
The Original JAS Log Scaling Standards, MAF Japan 1967
Most of NZ's export logs are scaled and sold in JAS cubic metres. Most involved in the industry will be familiar with JC Ellis and DA Elliot's publication "Log Scaling Guide for Exporters – FRI Bulletin 221", which has become the New Zealand standard for JAS scaling....
Interpine Offers Forestry Orientated LiDAR Analysis Training Course
After successfully completing our first Forestry Orientated LiDAR Analysis course to the final year students at the University of Canterbury in June 2011, Interpine is now offering this to the wider industry. This is an introductory course learning how to manipulate...
Comparison of Individual Tree Height Measurements: LiDAR vs Ground Measurement
Alvaro Ramirez Carreno recently received the Mary Sutherland award for a student studying Forestry at the Annual NZ Institute of Forestry (NZIF) Conference, held in Auckland in May 2011. Alvaro started with Interpine working within our field inventory operations and...
The Impact of Plot Size on LiDAR Standing Tree Volume Relationships in Forest Inventories
Susana Gonzalez Aracil recently won the NZ Institute of Forestry Annual Conference Student Research Poster Competition. Susana's poster was based on some of her research work on LiDAR metrics and plot modelling. Susana is completing her internship in New Zealand with...
New Pruned Height Indicators in PlotSafe V1.4
A recent minor update to PlotSafe has seen prune height features stand out more to end users in the field. This will enable them to check the prune height carefully through a quick visual glance at the screen. Through user and client feedback we recognise pruned parts...
Interpine Secures Nationwide Forest Carbon Inventory for Remeasurement of Post 1989 Forests in 2011,2012
Interpine is set to continue working with the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. Previous planted forest measurement season were completed in 2007,2008 and 2010 by Interpine on plantation forests...
Interpine Implements GPS Spot Messenger Tracking Across All Operations
Interpine has recently been implementing a staged rollout of GPS Spot Messenger devices across all its operations. These units use the GPS satellites to provide the users location and communicate this through the commercial satellite phone network to enable messages...
Interpine in China, Review and Training of Forest Inventory Systems and Practices
2010 saw some interesting projects undertaken both here in New Zealand and overseas. One of these was a trip to China, looking at inventory systems and techniques used for forest sale and purchase transactions in several different provinces. China is a very large...
Interpine and ForestrySA Collaborate in South Australia
In late 2009 Interpine carried out an overlapping feature cruising inventory for the first time in South Australia's Green Triangle region. Working closely with the resource team at ForestrySA Interpine developed and implemented a cruising dictionary for Pinus radiata...
Modelling Tree Height in YTGEN
Which trees should be height trees? Tree heights are among the most time consuming and difficult measurements to take in a forest inventory. The measurer must be an adequate distance away from the tree to get an accurate measure of height (angle to tip must be <50...
Interpine in the South Pacific – Implementing YTGEN and PLOTSAFE
Plotsafe and YTGEN course in Fiji In September 2010 Interpine were contracted to provide the first Plotsafe and YTGEN training course in the Fijian Islands. After some hard-fought arguments, and at times physical confrontations, at the Interpine office, Resource...
A Forest Condition Monitoring System for New Zealand
Over the past 100 years, New Zealand has developed a significant exotic forest resource that now provides the foundation for one of the largest industry sectors in New Zealand's economy. Alongside the commercial benefits of New Zealand's exotic forest resource sit an...
Forest Canopy Drip-line Buffers for the Forest ETS Mapping
There are a number of guidelines and rules to consider when mapping forest areas when applying to be involved in the forestry ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme). One that is often missed by inexperienced forest mapping providers is the need to "position the polygon along...
Mapping Your ETS Forests – Overview
If you're entering the forestry Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), you are likely to have been asked to map out your forest land. This is the first step used to estimate the total amount of carbon stored (i.e. the forest "carbon stocks"). Apart from determining your...
Resin Coding Assessment During Forest Inventory – An External View of Potential Internal Resin Problems
Interpine implement external resin bleeding scoring in most of forest inventory operations, to assist with assessment of internal wood quality. Introduction to Resin Coding Assessment A series of studies have confirmed clear links between external resin on the bark of...
Emissions Trading Scheme Overview – 2010
Understanding the Emission Trading Scheme and Carbon Markets is not always clear cut. Let us take a moment to review. The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the price-based mechanism established by the New Zealand Government to: Reduce net greenhouse gas emissions...
High Precision Sub-meter GPS Performance under Forest Canopy in NZ
Interpine has been working with LiDAR ground control survey for several years now. To ensure that the LiDAR data is compared correctly with the ground control measurement data, high precision sub-metre GPS units are used to fix the location of the plot centres...
National Level Planted Forest Carbon Inventory – Pre1990 Forests – 2010 Project Overview
INFORMATION RELEASE FOR SURVEY SITE LANDOWNERS Part of the "Land Use and Carbon Analysis System" (LUCAS) Interpine is working with the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. The first planted forest...
Pruned Resource Evaluation – What is it ? Why do It ?
The Pruned Log Index (PLI) was developed by former FRI scientist Jim Park in the late 80's and is respected throughout New Zealand by forest owners and Log buyers a like as the absolute measure of pruned log quality. Interpine is now providing stand sampling and...
Interpine Achieves Tertiary Level ACC Workplace Safety Accreditation
Interpine shows its commitment to the safety within its operations with the recent accreditation to tertiary level for ACC's Worksafe Health & Safety Management system. Interpine's most recent ACC audit procedure was completed in November 2009 with outstanding...
LUCAS Project Finalist in Government ICT Awards
The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment's LUCAS (Land Use and Carbon Analysis System) Project has achieved an exceptional placing, being one of the 4 finalists out of 16 in the Government's ICT (information and communications technology) awards held in late...
Interpine are on the Move to New Premises – 2 Oct 2009
Interpine are on the move. Our head office is relocating to the TePapa Tipu Innovation Park, 99 Sala Street, Rotorua on the 2 Oct 2009. Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park is set against the magnificent backdrop of Whakarewarewa Forest, the 114ha of park-like grounds are...
The NZ Emission Trading Scheme – Considerations for Maori Forest Owners
The NZETS is generally a positive development for forest owners in New Zealand whether Maori or not. Forest owners can now generate additional income through trading carbon credits that are allocated to them as their forests remove carbon from the atmosphere. The...
So What is the Timbertech Logger and How are we using it?
The Timbertech or Logger Tool was developed in the late 90's to assist a logmaker (log bucker) gain the best value solution from the trees (stems) as they are merchandised into log products. As shown in the video below, a handheld computer is connected to a digital...
National Level Planted Forest Carbon Inventory – Post 1989 Forests – Project Overview 2008
INFORMATION RELEASE FOR SURVEY SITE LANDOWNERS Part of the "Land Use and Carbon Analysis System" (LUCAS) Interpine is working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest inventory system...
Interpine Secures Nationwide Forest Carbon Inventory for Post 1989 Forests
Interpine is working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the Ministry for the Environment (MFE) to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. The first planted forest measurement season was completed in 2007 by Interpine,...
Carbon Inventory for Plantations Forests
Interpine has recently being working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Ministry for the Environment (MFE) and Scion Research to implement a planted forest inventory system for carbon monitoring. The first measurement season is now completed (July to...
Cross Sectional Analysis and Sawing Studies for PLI, CVP including Resinous Defects – Service Provision Update
Interpine is now providing stand sampling and mill studies for PLI and CVP. This includes the incidence of resin and other randomly occurring defects. Indicative of Interpine's commitment to progressive research based business development, this association with...
Pre-version 3 App” compiling Warning Message
Posted - 26/09/2007 : 09:56:06 Hi, when I open a dataplus application I get the error "One or more DPC programs are pre-version 3. These programs should be recompiled with the latest version of DPCEdit in order to avoid potential problems on the hand-held" But...
Using DOS BOX in Windows Vista to Test Apps Update: 07/09/2007
Some users have upgraded to Windows Vista and will want to still continue develop and test DataPlus Applications. You will have no problems developing the applications, but using the inbuilt TESTING tools will cause you to arrive at an error message (i.e. using the...
So What is YTGEN? Generating Forest Yield Predictions
YTGen (Yield Table Generator) is software for generating yield estimates in a production forestry context. The prediction of yields by log grade often referred to as MARVL* (Method for Assessment of Recoverable Volume by Logtype) and is based on a forest inventory....
Spike Knots – What are They? Introduction into Identifying and Measuring Spike Knots
A number of stem or log attributes are recognised and/or measured during log-making (bucking of logs within a stem). One of these is a "spike knot". Spikes knots are the result of acutely angled branches. So in essence they are just a normal branch which has formed on...
Secure File Storage for PlotSafe Data
Data security is critical. PlotSafe has been created with a number of features to help secure your data from loss or corruption, and hence its name. PlotSafe is designed to run on Windows CE3.0+ and PocketPC 2002+. On each of these devices you will need to setup...
So What Is The Carbon Value of my Forest? Some Initial Background
The fervour with which global warming, Kyoto and carbon credits are now discussed politically and within mainstream media nationally and internationally begs the question of what carbon value is stored in New Zealand forests. Before I attempt to answer that a basic...
Always Fullscreen DOS View When Testing APPS
Posted - 19/01/2007 : 09:24:08 When testing your DP programs in windows, is there a way to make the dos screen a window as apposed to fullscreen? I have modified the properties of the dos window to open as a window but it never listens and always opens full...
Multiple Item Picklist?
Posted - 16/01/2007 : 13:06:36 I need the user to pick multiple items for a field. Do I have to have a separate field for each item with a yes no or is there an easier way. Thanks Tony ----------- Tony Wilson DataPlus User Posted - 17/01/2007 : 04:01:27...
Considerations when using Basal Area Secondary Tally Plots During Pre-harvest Style Forest Inventory
Many foresters planning pre-harvest inventory in Pinus radiata in New Zealand consider the option of placing secondary basal area tally plots (aka prism plots) in addition to the normal primary plots. This can be valid way of conducting inventory in some...
Standing Tree Acoustics – Interpine Using the Fibregen Director ST300 Tool
In August 2005 extensive acoustic testing was carried out on behalf a client throughout their forest estate. This testing comprised of two parts. The first involved the sampling of upcoming harvest areas to attain an average acoustic velocity of the standing resource...
PLOTSAFE Forest Inventory Procedures Manual Available
With the release of PLOTSAFE and the RAD05 feature cruising dictionary, the CNI regional YTGEN user group have also released an update to the Forest Inventory Procedures Manual which will help people implement PLOTSAFE and RAD05 with ease. This can be downloaded...
Logmaker Value Recovery Audits – Interpine LVR Ltd
For the past 18 years Interpine Forestry Ltd (IPF) has provided the forest industry with log value recovery services (LVR) beginning with the use of the FRI AVIS program to the now most widely used TIMBERTECH* audit tool. Interpine invested significant resources in...
INTECH-CALIPER Branch or DOS Laser Measurement Tool
Interpine found a real need for a better way of measuring branch size during forest inventory. It is one stem feature which is still very much an eye-omitter classification which can have a big effect on any valuation of the standing resource. This is particularly...
Why can’t i Use Auto-Line Num as a Primary Key?
Posted - 28/08/2006 : 14:44:10 How come i cannot make a column which is set to Auto Data Entry Type of "Auto Line Number" as a KEY Column ? Thought this would be a valid option ? being that this will always be unique. ---------------------- David Herries Forum...
Connecting Garmin GPS data into Dataplus Issue
I am having problems getting GPS data from a Garmin Etrex into my dataPlus application. I can successfully get the GPS data into DataPlus on my Allegro using GPS expansion pod (com 3) and using a Holux GPS receiver on COM 1 but it does not appear to work with the...
Log Maker / Crew Onsite Value Recovery Audits – Understanding the Audit System
This article helps receivers of the Log Maker Value Recovery Audit results understand the terminology used and displayed in the audit results. But first an overview of what an LVR audit is.... Overview of a Logmaker / Crew Value Recovery Audit One of our services is...
Lit Review: Log Quality by Acoustics
The use of acoustic technology has been recognized as an accurate, precise, and efficient means by which wood quality can be quantifiably measured (www.metriguard.com/fiber.htm ; Rippy 1998; Baldwin 1995). However, the process of measuring wood quality at the log...
Using PLOTSAFE to collect MARVL alpha-style (A-Z) cruising dictionaries
PLOTSAFE brings the flexibility to collect multiple overlapping feature codes at the stem level and cruising dictionaries such as RAD05 have been developed to take advantage of these new features. However many users of the current A-Z style single feature dictionary...
Interpine User Forum NOW ONLINE
With cyberspace ("the internet" or "world wide web") now becoming part of our everyday lives even as foresters, it seems only sensible that we start using the internet to its true potential to help each other on a range of topics. Often we are stumped how to get...
Plotsafe Forest Inventory Datacapture Version 1.2 Released
Silmetra and Interpine Forestry have recently released PLOTSAFE version 1.2. after extensive testing of the beta version in the past 12 months. Over 2500 inventory plots have now been assessed using PLOTSAFE. The developers and the first clients for the product are...
RAD05 Cruising Domain for PLOTSAFE (Feature Cruising Dictionary)
Interpine and the CNI regional YTGEN user-group (a collection of inventory professionals and users from CNI forestry companies) have created a new cruising dictionary for PLOTSAFE data capture. The overlapping features component of PLOTSAFE allow us to cruise trees...
Falcon Informatics in New Zealand – Stand Fixing
Interpine have recently been demonstrating the Falcon stand and micro-stand level fixing to a client here in NZ. Interpine have been working with Falcon Informatics on forest inventory projects in the USA over the last 18 months, and have sparked interest in their...
Just How Rugged Are These Handheld Computers? Understanding the IP Rating System
Once you start looking into what types of handheld computers are available for the forest industry, it is important to understand just what is meant by "RUGGED". Most of the rugged computer products are rated under an international system which assigns an Ingress...
Seedling Quality Assessment Data Capture
13 February, 2004 Interpine has just introduced a handheld software application designed to electronically measure and record seedling quality for the forest nursery industry. Data pertaining to delivery batch, box, and seedling can be stored on your handheld...
Value Loss – Closing the Gap in the Forest
Article Source : InWood International - Science Report - Issue 54 Page 45 - Dec 2003 (www.inwoodmag.com*) The forest industry globally is losing critical value at source - cutting trees into logs. And, ironically, the more mechanised an operation, the worse it seems...
‘Logmaister’ System Trialed
Kajavala Forestry Ltd (KFL) have been trialing a prototype portable tree optimization and processing system called a 'Logmaister' in their logyard in Kawerau. "We're amazed at how this prototype is performing," said Managing Director of KFL, Jacob Kajavala. The...