In recent decades, with the remediation of Yangtze River and the control of bank collapse, the situation of

rivers along the Yangtze River in Anhui Province has trended to be stable and the bank collapse has been checked to some

extent. However, the concomitant river siltation seems to expand. In order to find out the present situation of

sedimentation along the Yangtze River in Anhui Province, this paper made an interpretation and analysis of the Yangtze

River sandbank and lake reclamation using ETM satellite images from 1987 to the autumn of 2001 in combination with TM

satellite images and airborne data obtained in this area since 1980. The results provide the basic information for

harnessing the Yangtze River flood and solving environmental geological problems.