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- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10391432
- Journal Name:
- Precision Agriculture
- ISSN:
- 1385-2256
- Publisher:
- Springer Science + Business Media
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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