Forecasting Potential Phragmites Coastal Invasion Corridors Study Area Extent
Dates
Publication Date
2010-09-09
Summary
This study area consists of a 10-km inland buffer of the U. S. Great Lakes shoreline. Islands within the lakes were included in this invasive Phragmites mapping project where remotely sensed imagery scenes were available.
Summary
This study area consists of a 10-km inland buffer of the U. S. Great Lakes shoreline. Islands within the lakes were included in this invasive Phragmites mapping project where remotely sensed imagery scenes were available.
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Purpose
This shapefile represents the extent of a distribution mapping program for invasive Phragmites australis for the coastal region (shoreline to 10km inland) of the United States side of the Great Lakes and Lake Michigan. Mapping efforts used a combination of field work and algorithms to classify remotely sensed data in order to identify stands of invasive Phragmites that were larger than 0.2 ha (0.5 acre). Satellite-based radar imagery came from the ALOS PALSAR program.
