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Research Article

Evaluating urban environment quality (UEQ) for Class-I Indian city: an integrated RS-GIS based exploratory spatial analysis

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Article: 2153932 | Received 08 Sep 2022, Accepted 27 Nov 2022, Published online: 09 Dec 2022

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