The Remote Sensing Editorial Office has been made aware that the published paper [1] has a potential plagiarism issue with published paper [2]. The potential plagiarism issue included some improper quotations with a number of identical equations, as well as the basic research method. Therefore, the Remote Sensing Editorial Office has taken the decision to retract [1] in order to preserve academic integrity. We apologize to the readers of Remote Sensing and to the authors of the previous work. The decision to retract has been taken in agreement with the authors of [1].
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