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Open source crop field delineation: Toward a global and free dataset via the AgStack Asset Registry collaboration

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Publisher Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR) ;

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Category Presentation

Language English

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