- Location of study area: Kiski-Conemaugh Watershed around Johnstown, PA
- 400 Linear Miles
- Streams included: Kiski, Loyalhanna, Conemaugh, Blacklick, Little Conemaugh, Stoney Creek
- Flight parameters
- Altitude: 1,162 Feet
- Speed: 45 Knots
- Swath: 245 Meters
- Resolution: 0.5 Meter
- Duration: 10 Hours of Flight Time over Two Days
- Mission: identify
15 specific invasive plant species
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Japanese Knotweed
- Giant Knotweed
- Tree of Heaven
- Multiflora Rose
- Purple Loosestrife
- Kudzu
- Common Reed (Phragmites)
- Oriental Bittersweet
- Mile-a-Minute
- Bush Honeysuckle
- Canada Thistle
- Japanese Stiltgrass
- Norway Maple
- Garlic Mustard
- Crown Vetch
- How was the mission accomplished?
- Everything has a unique spectral signature not unlike a fingerprint.
- This gives HAI the ability, using our AISA Eagle 1K Sensor, to distinguish one species from another.
- Ground spectra was collected by West Virginia University.
- These spectra were imported into our analysis software and species were differentiated.
- End Product
- Each invasive was a separate Region of Interest (ROI) displayed as an overlay in ENVI
- Each ROI was converted to an ArcView GIS Vector displayed as a theme
- This allows clientele to select which species they would like to view independently and allow data from various years to be compared.
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