by admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme
Under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, for participants with less than 100 hectares registered, New Zealand Units (NZU’s) are allocated according to the standard Te Uru Rakau lookup tables. Pinus radiata forests receive units under regional averages while...
by admin | Sep 6, 2020 | Cloud Services, Microsoft365, PSLog, Support - Cloud Remote Desktop
PSLOG is used by many of our users inside our Cloud Remote Desktop Service. Some users have reported an issue where they get an error message when exporting some of the PSLOG reporting to EXCEL. This could appear as an OLE Error message such as shown below. The...
by admin | Aug 26, 2020 | Cloud Services, Microsoft365, Support - Cloud Remote Desktop
As a forest manager using our cloud services, you can use Microsoft 365 OneDrive and SharePoint to set up folders for contractors to access information or just provide them with a link to a place to upload their data or files. For example, you might have a harvest...
by admin | Aug 26, 2020 | Company Updates, Staff, Training
Building a stronger team as part of our #COVID19 response objectives. Great to have some of the teams NZQA Competenz National Certificates coming through from all their hard work during our COVID19 Level 4 lockdown early this year. Interpine ran a range...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Emissions Trading Scheme, Forest Inventory, GIS and Mapping, PlotSafe
When comparing edge trees with “normal” trees (found inside a stand) it becomes obvious they can be significantly different. A generalisation is often that edge trees are shorter and fatter (greater taper) and also tend to have large branching. An edge...
by David Herries | Aug 13, 2020 | Forest Inventory
Existing popular methods such as the “plot mirage method” (Schmid-Haas, 1969) for eliminating bias due to boundary overlap suffer some disadvantages in practical use; having to establish a duplicate plot outside the forest edge which might not always be...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Forest Inventory, PlotSafe, Training
Before engaging staff in the field, an appropriate inventory planning step will save time and cost of the resulting forest inventory, as well as improve sample accuracy and precision. An element often missed when conduction forest inventories are dealing with forest...
by admin | Aug 10, 2020 | Carbon Inventory, Forest Inventory, LiDAR, UAV's / Drones
#3D #pointcloud colourised view of our Rotorua Head Office as we put to work the #Hovermap #LiDAR from Emesent. Our team were also out scanning a range of permanent sample plots, some of which were close to 50m tall #radiata pine. These were scanned in 3D from a walk...
by admin | Jul 29, 2020 | Cloud Services, GeoMaster, Support - Cloud Remote Desktop
Considering what forest inventory design to use for QC? When considering a forest inventory, as foresters we often need to create a sample plot layout across of net stocked area. There is a range of options available to the user in selecting the type of sampling...
by admin | Jul 24, 2020 | Industrial / Engineering, UAV's / Drones, Wildfire
Interpine operates a range of thermal sensors on our fleet of UAV’s (Unmanned aerial vehicles). Just a quick look at some of the sensors and their capability. Thermal Infrared Sensors The DJI Zenmuse H20T sensor (shown above on our Matrice 300 RTK Drone), is a...
