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A Schneider et al 2009 Environ. Res. Lett. 4 044003 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044003
A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data
FEATURED ARTICLEA Schneider1, M A Friedl2 and D Potere3
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