Honghu Lake, one of the seven largest fresh-water lakes in China, is well known for its ecological and economic importance, as well as its rapid changes in recent years. This study investigates the potential of using remote sensing to map and monitor aquatic vegetation changes in Honghu Lake on a large scale. Landsat TM/ETM+ images dated July 27, 2000, July 9, 2002, and July 17, 2008, and CBERS image dated August 12, 2005, are employed to map the aquatic vegetation distribution in the lake. A hybrid classification method, combining the power of the decision tree classifier, naive Bayes classif...
