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Remote sensing images can be used to explore the historical water area fluctuation of lakes. In addition, remote sensing can also be used to obtain historical water levels based on the water boundary elevation integrated with a topographic data (WBET) method or the level-surface area relationship curve (LRC) method. In order to minimize the uncertainty of the derived results, both methods were introduced in the extraction of the water level of Tian-e-Zhou during 1992\u20132015. The results reveal that the hydrological regime of the oxbow lake has experienced a significant change after the Shatanzi Levee construction in 1998. With the impact of the levee, the mean annual water surface area of the lake was reduced by 5.8 km2 during the flood season, but, during the non-flood season, it was increased by 1.35 km2. For the same period, the water level of the lake during the flood season also showed a 1.47 m (WBET method) or 3.21 m (LRC method) decrease. The mean annual water level increased by 1.12 m (WBET method) or 0.75 m (LRC method). Both results had a good accuracy with RMSE (root-mean-square errors) of less than 0.4 m. Furthermore, the water level differences between the Yangtze River channel and the oxbow lake increased by at least 0.5 m. It is found that the hydrological pattern of the oxbow lake changed significantly after the levee construction, which could bring some disadvantages to the habitats of the two endangered species.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10010027","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,26]],"date-time":"2017-12-26T03:06:38Z","timestamp":1514257598000},"page":"27","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Remote Sensing of Hydrological Changes in Tian-e-Zhou Oxbow Lake, an Ungauged Area of the Yangtze River Basin"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Chao","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Estimate for Environment and Disaster of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430077, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaobin","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Estimate for Environment and Disaster of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430077, China"}]},{"given":"Xuelei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Estimate for Environment and Disaster of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430077, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"147","DOI":"10.1016\/j.catena.2004.11.007","article-title":"Anastomosing river system along the subsiding middle Yangtze River Basin, southern China","volume":"60","author":"Wang","year":"2005","journal-title":"Catena"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"102","article-title":"Fluvial processes in the Lower Jingjiang River: Impact of the Three Gorges Reservoir impoundment","volume":"20","author":"Shao","year":"2005","journal-title":"Int. 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