ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2020, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 265-269

A critical shallowing of Lake Ebinur, Xinjiang, China, in 2020

A.G. Terekhov 1, 2 , N.N. Abayev 2, 3 
1 Institute of information and computing technology MES , Almaty, Kazakhstan
2 RSE Kazhydromet, Almaty, Kazakhstan
3 al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Accepted: 02.11.2020
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2020-17-7-265-269
The research considers the current state of large bitter-salt Lake Ebinur located in Xinjiang (Northwest China) near the border with Kazakhstan. Satellite-based monitoring using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 during 2020 has shown a significant shallowing of this reservoir. The lake mirror halved, from 720 to 360 km2, which led to drying up of its shallow northern part. The reason for the degradation of Lake Ebinur is the low water season coupled with the necessity to maintain a proper level of agricultural irrigation over 600 thousand hectares of arable land located in its basin. Because Lake Ebinur is located in a zone of very strong natural winds (Dzhungar Gate), there is a possibility of negative consequences associated with the appearance of intense salt storms from the drained part of the lake.
Keywords: remote sensing, Landsat 8, Sentinel-2, ecology, salt storms, arable land
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