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The main aspects related to the so-called spectral mixture under the perspective of orbital imagery carried out by Earth observation sensors are presented and contextualized.

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Shimabukuro, Y.E., Ponzoni, F.J. (2019). Background. In: Spectral Mixture for Remote Sensing. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02017-0_1

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