by David Herries | Mar 30, 2015 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
The modelling of diameter and height relationships during a forest inventory is often undertaken when a subset of tree heights is measured that will then be used to predict the heights of unmeasured trees. One such equation for doing this is the Petterson regression,...
by David Herries | Mar 30, 2015 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
PlotSafe is now available for use by Spanish forestry companies and field crews with the release of a Spanish install. To ease the language barrier as the software is adopted in South America, a Spanish version is now available from Silmetra. This replaces all the...
by David Herries | Mar 27, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Interpine recently presented an update in the airborne LiDAR sensor technology available for use in New Zealand. This was given to the Forest Owners Association GCFF Phenotyping technical steering group. This focused on what sensor capability has historically been...
by admin | Mar 15, 2015 | Cloud Services, DataPlus Mobile, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting
Interpine has recently made available its device management system for use by our cloud services clients. This allows them to link rugged handhelds computers, tablets and smartphone to our cloud services. These devices can be operating iOS, Android, Windows, Windows...
by Susana Gonzalez | Mar 10, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Canopy Height Model (CHM) is a difference between Digital Surface Model (DSM), being developed from first returns and Digital Terrain Model (DTM) created from the ground returns. Figure 1 – CHM image with trees between 0 and 65 meters of height. The lowest...
by Charles Chikono | Mar 2, 2015 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, Outside NZ
Background Interpine has been working with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP – previously DSE and DEPI) on the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program (VFMP) since 2011. Since then Interpine has been involved with DELWP by providing the...
by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping
At Interpine we offer a wide range of forest inventory products, all with same goal; to provide accurate data to decision makers. Here is a few tips to consider on this pathway to an accurate and precise final dataset. Outline Objectives Before starting the process...
by David Herries | Jan 10, 2015 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Interpine recently hosted Dr Martin Isenburg, director of RapidLasso, and the creator of LAStools and PulseWaves. Martin worked alongside our LiDAR for a week and attended ForestTech 2014. During this time Interpine also ran an introductory course in LiDAR use focused...
by David Herries | Dec 8, 2014 | Maori Forestry, Toitu Te Waonui
Māori land is a large resource that could be used to grow profitable, commercial forests. Large scale wood flows can be utilised to drive value-adding activities that will benefit investors, landowners and regional communities. Toitu Te Waonui (TTW) is a Maori led...
by David Herries | Dec 5, 2014 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR, PlotSafe, YTGEN
David Herries recently presented at ForestTech 2014 an overview of Plot Imputation as a method for development of forest yields using YTGEN. The presentation was designed to introduce and simplify the concepts of k-nearest neighbour and plot imputation while outlining...
