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Land use planning and wildfire risk mitigation: an analysis of wildfire-burned subdivisions using high-resolution remote sensing imagery and GIS data

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Pages 939-955 | Received 08 Apr 2008, Accepted 09 Mar 2009, Published online: 04 Sep 2009

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