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Forest structural diversity characterization in Mediterranean pines of central Spain with QuickBird-2 imagery and canonical correlation analysis

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Pages 628-642 | Received 22 Sep 2011, Accepted 28 Nov 2011, Published online: 02 Jun 2014

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