by David Herries | Dec 2, 2014 | Company Updates
Interpine recently attended both the New Zealand and Australian ForestTech conferences run by FIEA. The focus of this year’s ForestTech event was remote sensing, field inventory and forest estate planning. David Herries presented an understanding of Yield...
by admin | Nov 30, 2014 | Cloud Services, GIS and Mapping, Harvesting, HarvestNav, STICKS, Value Recovery
Interpine Launches STICKS! In co-operation with an Australian based company ForestPHD, Interpine has developed a new cloud based product that improves decision making along the forest supply chain and helps interrogate data collected from mechanized CTL...
by admin | Nov 30, 2014 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
Virtual DBH’s are used to process diameters of forks and reductions when processing data from PlotSafe to YTGen. A virtual DBH is a DBH applied to a stem where the stem does not exist at breast height. It represents the over bark diameter that, in combination...
by admin | Nov 30, 2014 | Forest Inventory, YTGEN
What is random numbers and how are these used within YTGen? An example use of random numbers in YTGEN is for the calculation of height at which a stem breaks when felled e.g. the whereabouts of break, random numbers hereby only determinate the randomness of a breakage...
by admin | Oct 8, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Managing forest information and operational events in GeoMaster is empowered by the link to ArcMap GIS. This means spatially all land be it productive, or non-productive can have detailed record keeping and more importantly a history. The core to this in GeoMaster is...
by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Often you obtain new areas of land or forest these areas will need to be brought into your GeoMaster Forest Information system. If you haven’t been given the new areas in a shapefile the first task is to map these new areas. You can either do this by creating in...
by admin | Sep 22, 2014 | Harvesting, Log Scaling, Logmaker Auditing, STICKS, Training, Value Recovery
Interpine’s Log Value Recovery Auditors recently attending a training session hosted by Waratah Forestry Attachments at their Rotorua training centre. The focus was learning more about the TimberRite measuring and control system, while also focusing on the key...
by David Herries | Sep 18, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR
Trees and buildings create “satellite shadows”, limiting the areas where you can reliably collect high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS or better known as use of the GPS (USA) or GLONASS (Russian) satellites) data. Interpine operate high...
by David Herries | Sep 12, 2014 | Maori Forestry, Toitu Te Waonui
Potentially a billion dollar opportunity for the Māori economy and a way to realise this. This is the outcome of a recent study undertaken by a Māori forest initiative group, Toitu Te Waonui. What is Toitu Te Waonui ? Toitu Te Waonui is the name of a forestry...
by David Herries | Aug 29, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Let’s be honest GIS editing can be a complex task and there are many tools and methods dedicated to this in software like ArcMap GIS. That said a forester often just wants to update a stand boundary, split a stand or map out a few gaps from a recent survey. In...
