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Original Articles

The Automatic Detection of Fire Scar in Alaska using Multi-Temporal PALSAR Polarimetric SAR Data

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Pages 447-461 | Received 11 Apr 2018, Accepted 27 Oct 2018, Published online: 26 Jan 2019

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