Data collection yield mapping

Once data is collected or logged over time it has to be analysed by software, and then used to variably apply inputs or make other management decisions. It is often combined with other data, e.g. weather records, to help the analysis. A mass of individual pieces of data are produced from, say, a combine harvester travelling across a wheat field. Some errors will be amongst this data. To produce a yield map the data must be smoothed or kriged and it is the ability of the programmes used to do this that determines how useful and accurate the map will be. 

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