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  1. Land & Water, CSIRO, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Raphaele Blanchi

  2. NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    Alexander Maranghides

  3. CSIRO, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Jacqueline R. England

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Blanchi, R., Maranghides, A., England, J.R. (2019). Lessons Learnt from Post-Fire Surveys and Investigations. In: Manzello, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51727-8_46-1

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