GIS for Prioritizing Habitat Restoration

In 2022, Resource Innovations helped the Government of Northwest Territories with their caribou habitat restoration efforts by creating a spatial inventory of viable sites and decision tree criteria to prioritize them. Using remote sensing techniques and suitability modelling in Esri software like ArcGIS Pro, the team mapped human disturbances within 10 kilometres of the all-season road network in the southern Northwest Territories as a pilot project. The team has since completed two additional disturbance mapping projects and migrated the entire workflow to ArcGIS Pro. The project is now being used as the basis for caribou habitat rehabilitation and habitat loss remediation efforts in the territory.