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Maguire, D.J. (2016). ArcGIS: General-Purpose GIS Software. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_68-2

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