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Mapping vegetation morphology types in a dry savanna ecosystem: integrating hierarchical object-based image analysis with Random Forest

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Pages 1175-1198 | Received 22 Apr 2013, Accepted 30 Nov 2013, Published online: 13 Feb 2014

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