by David Herries | Jul 30, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
One of the features of GeoMaster’s forest stand record system is its link to ArcMap. This gives the ability to easily visualise our forest and its related data. One feature often overlooked is the ability to select upcoming operations and quickly review them in...
by admin | Jul 29, 2014 | Valuation, YTGEN
This article summaries the main uses of the I300 growth model within YTGen. In summary the 300 Index model is a New Zealand national growth model for Pinus radiata. The Plantation Management Co-operative initiated its development before 2005; later Future Forests...
by David Herries | Jul 29, 2014 | Cutover Debris Assessment, Forest Inventory, Harvesting, Slash Assessment, Value Recovery
Practitioners Guide to the Methodology Introduction Concerned with improving the recovery of merchantable volume across a harvest cutover, a harvest supervisor or forest owner will often need to quantify how much is left post-harvest. The time and effort spent doing...
by admin | Jul 10, 2014 | Harvesting, Valuation, Value Recovery, YTGEN
Woodlot valuation are traditionally based on averages which tend to ignore the effects of variability or risk. Sources or variability in woodlot valuations typically included the following: Log price changes JAS conversions factors m3 / tonne conversion factors Yield...
by Charles Chikono | Jun 19, 2014 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, Outside NZ
Interpine was contracted by the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) to establish and re-measure plots across the state of Victoria, Australia, under the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program. This is a long term project which aims to detect change...
by David Herries | Apr 29, 2014 | Company Updates
As of April 1 2014, Interpine Forestry Ltd (Company ID 205505) has evolved into Interpine Group Ltd (Company ID 3077529). This move brings with it the establishment of Interpine Group Pty Ltd (ACN 152308300) in Australia, thus aligning our business entities both in...
by David Herries | Apr 22, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav
HarvestNav is now available as a free download from the Interpine website. Users can now access the application online which was developed with funding from Future Forest Research Ltd. Version 1 of the application is being made available as a free download to...
by David Herries | Apr 22, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Often foresters / supervisors will need to create prescription documents for contractors or internal staff to complete a field event. A simple event report in GeoMaster is often not customisable enough to create a format suitable as schedules in contract appendices or...
by David Herries | Mar 31, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
One of the common questions we are asked is how many pulses per square meter (pulses/m2) should be prescribed in a LiDAR survey to result in a “good” digital terrain model (DTM / DEM). The question then becomes what density of vegetation is covering the...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2014 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
When considering a forest inventory, as foresters we often need to create a sample plot layout across of net stocked area. As part of our Forest Management Cloud Service, GeoMaster Assessment Planner simplifies the creation of sample plot designs for forest inventory...
