湖北林业科技

Under support of RS software (Erdas Imaging 8.5) and GPS technology, beach resource in Wuhan city was investigated, and then by dealing with Landsat satellite TM images and site-fixed data collected on ground, the beach type and characteristic of Wuhan city was analyzed. The beach area of river and lake in Wuhan are about 261.12 km~2, accounting for 3.082% of the land area in Wuhan city, the beach area of river is 123. 56 km~2 accounting for 1.458% of the whole beach area; the beach area of the lake is 137. 56 km~2 accounting for 1.624% of the whole beach area. The paper makes an elementary analysis to the forming and distribution of the two kinds of beaches.