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6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
VONNAS, FRANCE and TOPSCAN GMBH, STEINFURT, 
Thanks to GEOMETRE EXPERT FONCIER, B. MOREL f, | 
GERMANY for kindly providing the datasets. | 
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