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      Intercalibration and Gaussian Process Modeling of Nighttime Lights Imagery for Measuring Urbanization Trends in Africa 2000–2013

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                Remote Sensing
                Remote Sensing
                MDPI AG
                2072-4292
                July 2017
                July 11 2017
                : 9
                : 7
                : 713
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                10.3390/rs9070713
                4ce26e1c-7ad8-4292-b6d6-33711f26ad17
                © 2017

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