Analysis of Relation between Change of Lakes and the Spatial Pattern of Soils in the Lake District in Sihu Drainage Basin,Middle Reaches of Yangtze River
The purpose of this study is to analyze whether the spatial pattern of soils in the lake district has some relationships with the course of change of lakes at the lakes’fluctuation extent in Sihu drainage basin, middle reaches of Yangtze River.Information of lakes’distribution in Sihu drainage basin from 1920s to 2005 was collected from historical topographic maps,lake maps,water resources maps,and remotely sensed images.Afterwards,the time series of lake maps were imported into GIS software and characteriz...