Drones for Forestry
Improved Efficiency, Data Quality, and Accessibility
Utilise aerial drones for surveying and mapping, stock assessment, ETS evidence, disease monitoring, pest detection, fire management, cutover waste assessment, and more.
Deploy drones with high-resolution cameras, LiDAR and multispectral sensors to manage your entire forest life cycle from pre planting and survival analysis to stocking and thinning assessments. map forests, sample vegetation, or monitor and manage the health of forests and wildlife.
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Advantages
✘ Traditional forest management involves on-foot or helicopter surveying, which are time-consuming and drain resources.
✓ Drones streamline data collection, offering a cost-effective, rapid, and accurate solution for forest and land assessment.
✘ Conventional forest survey outputs lack visual references or are low resolution, with limited scope and scale.
✓ Equipped with advanced cameras and LiDAR, drones excel at capturing detailed and accurate data.
✘ Collecting usable data in complex, heavily-vegetated, and remote forest areas is often difficult and dangerous.
✓ Automatic terrain follow allows you to easily fly above forested terrain, using LiDAR to penetrate the vegetation for comprehensive, reliable data collection.
✘ Extensive ground surveys or use of heavy machinery can have major negative impacts on the forest habitat.
✓ Drones offer environmentally-friendly data collection, minimising habitat disruption and soil disturbance.
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Aerial Forestry Solutions
LiDAR Mapping Solution
Matrice 350 RTK equipped with the Zenmuse L2 Frame-based LiDAR, can penetrate densely vegetated areas and obtain bare ground data. Increase aerial survey efficiency thanks to its integrated 4/3 CMOS RGB Mapping camera for simultaneous Point Clouds and photogrammetry data collection.
✓ Field-work efficiency – covers 3 km² per flight, collecting both LiDAR and photogrammetry data.
✓ Highly integrated solution, reducing on-site time and ensuring data capture quality.
✓ Reliable and robust multi-purposed drone platform designed to endure harsh environments and conditions.
✓ Capture accurate LiDAR data with a vertical accuracy of 5 cm or less – ideal for densely vegetated areas.
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Portable Drone Surveying & Mapping Solution
The DJI Mavic 3E is a portable surveying and mapping drone suitable for single-pilot operations. Paired with DJI Terra, it can generate accurate 2D and 3D models with significant reduction on the ground control points.
✓ Portable solution, easy to carry and deploy.
✓ Centimetre-level data thanks to its mechanical shutter and RTK capability.
✓ Field-work efficiency – covers 2 km² per flight, delivering a 5cm GSD.
✓ Real-Time Terrain Follow feature to ensure high-quality data capture in challenging and variable terrains.
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Aerial Multispectral Forestry Solution
The DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral can be used for a range of forestry applications including identifying tree species, tree health, and biomass, detecting and monitoring changes over time, mapping the spread of disease or the impact of logging, and estimating timber volume.
✓ Portable solution, easy to carry and deploy.
✓ 20MP RGB camera and 4x multispectral cameras (green, red, red edge, near infrared) for precision aerial surveying and monitoring.
✓ Combine with DJI Terra to reconstruct high-resolution forestry maps and distinguish trees from other obstacles or objects.
✓ Obtain Vegetation Index data such as NDRE and NDVI for deeper, more accurate, and timely insights on plant health.
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Full-Frame High-Performance Surveying and Mapping Solution
Matrice 350 RTK paired with the Zenmuse P1 full-frame sensor and its Smart Oblique Capture feature takes aerial surveying efficiency and accuracy to a whole new level. Combine with DJI Terra for an efficient and integrated UAV surveying and mapping solution.
✓ Generate accurate centimetre-level deliverables, significantly reducing ground control points.
✓ Field-work efficiency – covers 3 km² per flight, delivering a 5cm GSD.
✓ Reliable multi-purposed drone platform.
✓ Zenmuse P1 has a 45MP, full-frame sensor to ensure high-quality data collection.
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Interpine – Forestry UAV Services
Interpine are New Zealand leaders in forestry UAV operations, combining a long track record of success with an experienced team of qualified technicians. If you are not in a position yet to carry out your own drone operations, below is a list of services they can provide:
Cutover waste assessment – using UAV imagery to determine volume and distribution of cutover waste (slash) in a harvest area.
Stocking assessment (tree counting) – using UAV imagery and/or LiDAR data to determine the stocking of trees in a stand. This can be done pre/post thinning events to determine how many trees have been removed, and LiDAR-based stocking assessment includes tree height and crown size metrics.
Real time thinning assessment – using UAV video in real time to determine stocking.
Survival assessment – using UAV imagery to determine stocking and survival of early-age stands.
Volume assessment – using UAV photogrammetry or LiDAR to calculate stockpile volumes.
Environmental assessments – using UAV photogrammetry and video for a range of environmental assessments.
Evidence for ETS registration – using UAV imagery for required evidence in ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) registration.
Object identification and machine learning – using UAV photogrammetry with machine learning algorithms to detect objects.
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