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De Floriani, L., Magillo, P. (2018). Digital Elevation Models. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_129
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