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Research Articles

Evaluating the Suitability of Multi-Scale Terrain Attribute Calculation Approaches for Seabed Mapping Applications

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Pages 327-385 | Received 02 Dec 2020, Accepted 20 Apr 2021, Published online: 04 Jun 2021

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