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Guidelines on the use of available remote sensing tools, products, methodologies and data to improve agricultural crop production forecast statistics in sub-saharan African countries

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 76

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-130434-1

Edition 1

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Language English

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