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Mapping Kabul’s Private Urban Green Spaces Using Geographic Information System-Supervised Classification

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|May 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2020-0003 | Journal eISSN: 1805-4196 | Journal ISSN: 1803-2427
Language: English
Page range: 42 - 60
Submitted on: Jul 16, 2019
Accepted on: Dec 23, 2019
Published on: May 26, 2020
Published by: Czech Society for Landscape Ecology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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