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A three-decade survey of the phytoplankton blooms was completed for Erhai Lake from 1987 to 2016 with Landsat imagery. A modified three-band model using Landsat broad bands is developed by comparing reflectance data from Landsat imagery to two field datasets. The model is applied to the archived imagery (1987\u20132016) to predict chlorophyll-a (Chl-a). Predicted ln(Chl-a) and observed ln(Chl-a) measurements are significantly correlated (R2 = 0.70; RMSE = 0.13 ug\/L). Bloom maps are generated by identifying Landsat pixels that have Chl-a concentrations larger than 20 ug\/L as bloom area. Bloom extent and magnitude are estimated. Our study reveals that algal blooms first occurred in 1996 with a bloom area of 150 km2. Bloom occurred frequently from 2002 to 2016, with extreme blooms in 2003, 2013 and 2016. Algal blooms were mostly distributed in the northern and southern part of the lake. The proposed method uses one model for all Landsat images for Erhai Lake and can predict past blooms and extend the record to early years when field data is not available. The bloom extent and magnitude produced in this study can be used as the basis for the understanding of the processes that control the bloom outbreak.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9121265","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,6]],"date-time":"2017-12-06T11:29:36Z","timestamp":1512559776000},"page":"1265","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":56,"title":["A 30-Year Assessment of Phytoplankton Blooms in Erhai Lake Using Landsat Imagery: 1987 to 2016"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Wenxia","family":"Tan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation of Hubei Province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Pengcheng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation of Hubei Province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Shao","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Shunan","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation of Hubei Province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ansari, A.A., and Gill, S.S. 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