Modeling crop yield in West-African rainfed agriculture using global and local spatial regression

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1177-1188

  Imran, Muhammad ^a   Zurita Milla, Raul ^a   Stein, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84883119769     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2012.0370     Document Type: Article

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