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Although water quality can be obtained with high accuracy using traditional measurement methods, the cost is high and the area is limited. In the past a single-satellite remote sensing system was normally used to estimate water quality at a large scale, while bands were fewer with limited accuracy. In this paper, inversion models for TN and TP are obtained and validated in the main stream of the Yangtze River using multi-source remote sensing data. The joint inversion models for TN and TP have higher accuracy (R2=0.81\u00a0and\u00a00.86, RMSE=0.51\u00a0and\u00a00.10\u00a0mg\u00a0L\u22121) than the single-satellite inversion models (R2=0.61\u22120.62\u00a0and\u00a00.59\u22120.75, RMSE=0.41\u22120.61\u00a0and\u00a00.07\u22120.12\u00a0mg\u00a0L\u22121). Using these models, water quality changes in the Yangtze River are obtained from 2019 to 2021. It is found that TN and TP in the upstream and downstream are high. In spring and autumn, the water quality is poor. The water quality in the Yangtze River is mostly Class III with improvement. Furthermore, it is found that TN and TP are negatively correlated with the water level, temperature and flow in Jiujiang. The p value between water quality and the water level is higher than for other factors, with \u22120.76 and \u22120.64 for TN and TP, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15102526","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,12]],"date-time":"2023-05-12T01:05:10Z","timestamp":1683853510000},"page":"2526","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Dynamic Water Quality Changes in the Main Stream of the Yangtze River from Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Jiarui","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China"},{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5108-4828","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuanggen","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9429-6305","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuanyuan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Li, S., Cheng, C., Wang, X., and Li, Z. 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