Observer bias and random variation in vegetation monitoring data

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• Publication year

  2008

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  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2008-04-10

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3170/2008-8-18423
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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