In Lake Dongting district, there are some inner lakes located at low-lying fields surrounded by protective embankments. As a result of the dual effects of climate change and human activities, the area of inner lakes had changed apparently over the past decades. In this study, changes of water surface area for inner lakes in Lake Dongting district had been surveyed, using multi-time remote sensing images from 1979 to 2016. The total area was relatively stable, while a rising trend in wet season and decreased in a fluctuation way during dry seaso...