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Remote sensing to monitor cover crop adoption in southeastern Pennsylvania

W.D. Hively, S. Duiker, G. McCarty and K. Prabhakara
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation November 2015, 70 (6) 340-352; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.70.6.340
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