Mapping Muskox Habitat in the Canadian High Arctic with SPOT Satellite Data

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Pearce, Cheryl M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Animal food; Mapping; Muskoxen; Plant distribution; Remote sensing; Satellite photography; Sedges; Polar deserts; Wildlife habitat; Plant cover; Devon Island; Nunavut; Truelove Lowland; Arctic; Jones Sound; Île Devon; muskox; polar desert
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64624

SPOT satellite data were used to detect and map muskox habitat on Devon Island, N.W.T. Muskox habitat in the Canadian High Arctic is restricted to small islands of productive sedge meadow isolated within a matrix of sparsely vegetated polar desert. On Devon Island, muskox herds move among small lowl...