by David Herries | Feb 11, 2014 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav, Health and Safety, LiDAR
In conjunction with Future Forest Research, Interpine has been developing a Harvest Navigation System called HarvestNav. Interpine recently presented the HarvestNav system at the Foresttech Conference in Nov 2013. This outlined a series of recent in forest trials of...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2014 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
We recently visited one of AAM Group’s plane fitted with the PEGASUS HA500 LiDAR system. This is flying on behalf of one of our clients which had adopted our kNN style of LiDAR analysis for forest product yield calculation. Great to see the system flexibility in...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2014 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Over the last 3 years Interpine have been developing a range of LiDAR analysis techniques for the imputation of forest yield metrics of wide areas of forests estates. Interpine have focused its research in late 2012 to a statistical technique known as k-Nearest...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2014 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, PSLog
One of the advantages of the Interpine Forest Management cloud system is access from anywhere there is an internet connection. A recent client has been using the system remotely using the Apple iPad, with surprising good results. Providing instant access to their...
by admin | Feb 5, 2014 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Recently Interpine completed a soil carbon survey for the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) as part of New Zealand’s carbon monitoring system, known as the LUCAS programme. This involved sampling throughout planted forest sites across Northland, Bay of...
by David Herries | Dec 23, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
One of the common tasks as a forester monitoring operations is the use of GPS to collect operation/event areas. This might be waypoints and/or tracks of operations from handheld GPS units or collected by aerial operations done by helicopters and planes. We then can...
by admin | Dec 6, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
Tree height prediction and modelling is an important part of the data conversion, below article describes the equations and their difference tree height prediction. The subject of modelling tree heights is described in the following article; Modelling Tree Height in...
by David Herries | Dec 3, 2013 | Company Updates, Staff
A large group of staff (19) at Interpine recently undertook a two day Te Pumaomao workshop facilitated by Takawai Murphy and his wife Chris. Hosted at Te Whetū o Te Rangi Marae (Ngati Pukenga) in Welcome Bay, Tauranga, the course was designed to reflect on the...
by admin | Nov 27, 2013 | PlotSafe, Training, YTGEN
One of the foundations within YTGen is its flexibility when it comes to choosing which log grades to produce. The Cutting Strategy (*.YTS file) options within YTGen offers the user a wide range of options to define different types of log products. These can be...
by admin | Nov 26, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, YTGEN
We often get questions from new users on the use of “shorts” and “longs” sweep assessment in cruising dictionaries such as RAD05, RAD05A and RAD06. It is worth a few moments to understand the history and versatility in assessment sweep in...
