by David Herries | Mar 14, 2018 | Training, UAV's / Drones
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...
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 14, 2018 | Cloud Services, Harvesting, STICKS, Value Recovery
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...
by David Herries | Mar 10, 2018 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR, Outside NZ, STICKS
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...
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 26, 2018 | LiDAR, Outside NZ
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...
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...
