STUDY ON HISTORICAL TRANSITION OF THE TONE RIVER TRACK FEATURING SATELLITE DATA

Abstract

The Tone River has leaved natural levees and back marshes by changed course on a large scale in the Saitama Plains. In this research, the former course of the Tone Rivers were inferred by overlaying processing positional distribution chart of temple and shrines on a visualization image of linear geographic feature on a Saitama Plains. In addition, meandering of the river courses before modern time was examined based on the dates that temple and shrines were established on the Saitama Plains.