Monitoring the Thinning of Aged Lakes Using Satellite Remote Sensing

摘要

The natural lakes are one of a hotspot for wetland habitats. Living and non-living things are habiting depending on the existing water of the lake. Inle lake is one of the most biodiversity hotspot area of Myanmar considering the wetland habitats which involve human culture and social communities. It is located amount the limestone mountain ranges in the Shan high land of eastern Myanmar. Its naturally formation values the lake with a wide range of biodiversity. Since, the lake shoals by the sedimentation of weathering mountain ranges, slope agriculture and in-lake agriculture; the values of the lake becoming decline from it origin. The people are habituating and living in the lake or near the lake without maintaining the potential of water body of the lake. Satellite images are used to observe the thinning of the lake within 40 years. The study found that the lake thinning 3.8 times from 1796 to 2013.