DFOS Applications to Geo-Engineering Monitoring

Bin SHI; Dan ZHANG; Honghu ZHU; Chengcheng ZHANG; Kai GU; Hongwei SANG; Heming HAN; Mengya SUN; Jie LI

doi:10.1007/s13320-021-0620-y

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