Defining urban areas

Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages 33-45

  Weeks, John R ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84979894394     PISSN: 15673200     EISSN: 22151842     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4385-7_3     Document Type: Chapter

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