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Chen, A., Di, L., Wei, Y., Bai, Y. (2008). Grid, Geospatial. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_552

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