Home – Home – Jornals – Contemporary Problems of Ecology 2009 number 3

A method of estimating the quality of habitats on the basis of field accounts with records of routes and the positions of tracks with the help of GPS, multi-channel survey Landsat, a three-dimensionаl model of the relief and discriminant anаlysis is demonstrated. For the analysis of the distribution of mink (American and European) as an example, we demonstrate the principles of choosing the optimal analysis method, revelation of environmental characteristics determining the distribution of the species, mapping, estimation of the quality of habitats and the probabilities to detect tracks. The outlooks and some problems of the implementation of the proposed approach are discussed.