by David Herries | Mar 26, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available for small to medium forest owners as a cloud computing service (SaaS) provided by Interpine. GeoMaster is a proven forest information system used by large forest owners across New Zealand and Australia. Seamless integration with ESRI...
by David Herries | Mar 26, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, GIS and Mapping
ATLAS GeoMaster is now available as a cloud service for small and medium forest and land owners, and managers. It enables the forest manager to easily plan, manage, and report on all activity within a forest and land environment, maintaining a history of all events...
by David Herries | Mar 22, 2013 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster
Cloud services is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted computer based services over the Internet. These services can broadly be divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and...
by admin | Mar 14, 2013 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) are now releasing formally derived carbon yield lookup tables for participates in the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). These have been created specific to the forest and forest type based on inventory data collected through the...
by David Herries | Feb 7, 2013 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
Featured this week on Hyundai Country Calendar, Farm Forester Gabrielle Walton believes landowners should look beyond pine and plant a wider range of timber trees on their farms. She and her parents, Cloie and David Blackley, grow a mix of specialty timbers on...
by David Herries | Nov 6, 2012 | Carbon Inventory, DataPlus Mobile, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, LUCAS
Interpine has completed ahead of time, the Nationwide Forest Carbon Inventory for Re-measurement of Post 1989 Forests completed over the winters of 2011,2012. A total of 202 and 193 plots were established or re-measured across the country in 2011 and 2012...
by admin | Aug 16, 2012 | Forest Inventory, LiDAR
Interpine have been doing several research projects looking at the potential of using LiDAR as an auxiliary variable in regression sampling. The results are looking very promising and we have a range of production field trials underway to move the application of LiDAR...
by admin | Jul 19, 2012 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LiDAR
One question that has been raised in the Interpine team in our LiDAR analysis work is; “Just how important is the co-location of the LiDAR and ground survey plots ?” “and hence how much do we have to spend on a GNSS/GPS receivers for fixing LiDAR...
by David Herries | Apr 24, 2012 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe
A recent feature we have updated in PlotSafe is the representation of diameters recorded at the stem description level. This allows for increasing diameters to be easily recorded against the stem description. Previous versions of PlotSafe had an inbuilt rule not to...
by David Herries | Feb 24, 2012 | Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, GPS, LUCAS
Recently, we looked at GPS Precision (EPE). A few questions were also raised about plot location and I thought it might also be good to look at how accurate we could expect to locate the survey point inside the forest under a range of conditions and forest canopies....
