Estimation of trophic state of Inland Lake using remote sensing data

In this paper, a method of estimating lake trophic state is presented which is based on Remote Sensing data. First, Remote sensing data that has been preprocessed is used to inverse the concentration of Chlorophyll a in the lake. And then we select the Trophic State Index (TSI) to estimate the trophic state of the lake. In this paper, a scene of Landsat-5 TM data on Oct 28, 2003 as the Remote sensing data is used to accomplish the estimation. The study area is the region of Lake Taihu in China.