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In west‐coastal Canada Garry oak habitat has been significantly degraded and reduced to 1–5% of its pre‐European settlement range. To reverse the at‐risk status of species associated with Garry oak habitat, restoration efforts are mandatory. Effective restoration requires understanding habitat distribution in a detailed, accurate, and spatially explicit manner. This research investigates whether classified airborne hyperspectral imagery can provide distribution predictions that are more detailed and accurate than those stemming from conventional aerial photograph interpretation. Furthermore, this research assesses whether including structural information represented by light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data increases classification accuracies. Hyperspectral classification resulted in an overall accuracy of 86.4% with a 0.8 Kappa Index of Agreement (KIA) and Garry oak producer's and user's accuracies of 81.7 and 92.1%, respectively. Including structural information as classification input resulted in an overall accuracy of 87.2% with a 0.8 KIA and Garry oak producer's and user's accuracies of 86.9 and 81.5%, respectively. Both rounds of classification identified the precise location and amount of Garry oak trees/tree clusters at a 2‐m spatial resolution providing significant improvement as compared with 1:5,000 scale polygons mapped with a minimum unit of 0.04 ha (i.e. 20 × 20‐m) which comprise conventional data. Despite lower user's accuracy for Garry oak, overall, Garry oak producer's and most per‐class accuracies (producer's and user's) increased with the inclusion of structural information and therefore its use is recommended. Classification results provide contemporary reference information which can inform required restoration activities and be used to judge their effectiveness....
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