“…Under the influence of LUCC (Land-Use and Land-Cover Change) and other forms of environmental change, surface water, as one of the most important resources on Earth, has undergone constant temporal and spatial evolution. For many years, the impacts of surface water evolution on ecology, society, health and the economy have been topics of a large number of academic studies [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. For example, the areas of 22 relatively large lakes in the southeast region of Qiangtang Plateau have been expanding during 30 years of increasing ice melt, snowmelt, and rainfall, and decreasing evaporation [11].…”