The Illuminating Role of Laser Scanning Digital Elevation Models in Precision Agriculture Experimental Designs - An Agro-Ecology Perspective

Jeffrey Willers, Darrin Roberts, Charles O’Hara, George Milliken, Kenneth Hood, John Walters and Edmund Schuster Genetics and Precision Agriculture Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Mississippi State, Mississippi, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University, Spatial Information Solutions, Starkville, Mississippi, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, Milliken Associates, Manhattan, Kansas, Perthshire Farms, Gunnison, Mississippi, InTime, Inc., Cleveland, Mississippi Aggeos, Inc., Fulton, Mississippi, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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