by David Herries | Jul 31, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
A forest manager or forest owner is often confronted with needing to manage risks found across their estate. It is important their staff when planning operations are aware of these risks. The Risk Manager within GeoMaster enables details about GIS based risk features...
by David Herries | Jul 25, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Interpine’s Forest Management Cloud Service also includes Microsoft’s Office 365. When managing forests, you have a wide range of documents and information. This can range from GIS to EXCEL, WORD, PDF’s, Photos and more. You need somewhere to store...
by David Herries | Jul 15, 2013 | GIS and Mapping, GPS
If you were ever wondering what those NZTM Co-ordinates (New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 projection grid coordinates) on your GPS actually mean, you are likely not the only one. Many people use these every day without actually knowing much about them. For example...
by admin | Jul 11, 2013 | Cloud Services, Forest Inventory, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping, GPS
Forest Managers need to sample their forest for a range of operations from quality control to resource assessment. This often involves putting in a sample plot network, creating a map for use in field and loading these points into a GPS for use to navigate in the...
by Katie Simmons | Jul 5, 2013 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR
A team of researchers at Interpine recently completed a case study where stand attributes were derived from field measurements and LiDAR data using an approach known as nearest neighbor (kNN) imputation. The study was highly successful and produced unbiased and...
by David Herries | Jun 28, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
Sarah Pitcher-Campbell and Peter Auge will be presenting our Cloud Computing Services for Forest Management at the upcoming NZ Institute of Forestry 2013 annual conference in Taranaki on the 1-2 July 2013. They will be introducing our unique cloud solution for the...
by David Herries | May 31, 2013 | LiDAR
An interesting view of our head office in Rotorua using a recent LiDAR dataset. Shown below are a series of images of the LiDAR point cloud and subsequent aerial photo draped over the 3D model created by the LiDAR data. This is just one example of the information...
by David Herries | May 6, 2013 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, LiDAR
Hamish Marshall, Jonathan Dash and David Herries from Interpine recently lead a workshop series in collaboration with Future Forest Research and SCION. This covered the use of Remote Sensing for Resource Assessment, and was held in Christchurch and...
by David Herries | May 2, 2013 | GIS and Mapping, GPS, Harvesting, HarvestNav, Health and Safety, LiDAR
Update: This system is now called HarvestNav (Oct 2013) Interpine has recently released for industry testing an on-board harvesting specific navigation system to improve productivity and safety for machines operating in medium to steep terrain. The focus of this...
by admin | Apr 30, 2013 | Cloud Services, Emissions Trading Scheme, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
GeoMaster provides support for the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) by recording how much of your forest overlaps areas registered as Post 1989 carbon accounting areas (CAAs) and areas classified as Pre 1990 forest land. The ETS support works within...
