Maxent; Biased support vector machine; Boosted regression trees; Imaging spectroscopy; Vegetation; Species distribution model; Yellow starthistle; Centaurea solstitialis; Phalaris aquatica; Carnegie airborne observatory; Hyperspectral

Most remote sensing approaches for mapping invasive plant species focus on species in a prominent phenological stage, such as during flowering, and do not systematically evaluate the performance for mapping lower cover fractions. In this study, we …