Rupasinghe and Chow-Fraser 2018 Final Report to MTO

We tested the suitability of high-resolution (80 cm) multi-spectral satellite data from World View 3 (WV 3) to detect small patches of invasive Phragmites within 20-m buffer of the centre-line of the road. We used ENVI 5.5 to classify the image into seven classes: roads, trees, Phragmites, roadsides, ground, grass, andagriculture. We applied the Mixture-Tuned Match Filtering (MTMF) procedure to the image, which is a spectral unmixing method in …