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Issiaka Diaby1, Mickaël Germain1, Kalifa Goïta1

  • 1Centre d'Applications et de Recherches en Télédétection (CARTEL), Département de Géomatique Appliquée, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, QC J1K2R1, Canada.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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