Mapping fractality during the process of deforestation in an Amazon tri-national frontier

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 589-598

  Sun, Jing ^a   Huang, Zhuojie ^a   Southworth, Jane ^a   Qiu, Youliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 84886642940     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2013.771827     Document Type: Article

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