Mapping Floating and Emergent Aquatic Vegetation in Coastal Wetlands of Eastern Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Canada

Expansion and contraction of floating and emergent vegetation due to fluctuating water levels has a direct impact on the amount of critical fish habitat in the coastal marshes of Georgian Bay, Lake Huron (Canada). Traditional mapping approaches developed for site-specific studies are too expensive to quantify such changes at the scale of Georgian Bay. Here, we use IKONOS images to develop a classification method (process-tree classification …