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programs for soil mapping and estimation of soil
capabilities in the fields of agriculture and forestry;
programs for producing vegetation, land cover and land use
maps from aerial photography and satellite imagery;
programs for surveying crop conditions, disease and pest
dynamics; forest conditions including depletion, restocking,
and regeneration, monitoring of forest and savannah fires,
using aerial surveys and satellite imagery combined with
appropriate field data;
techniques for filling in by various estimation procedures
missing data specifically for each field and, where
applicable, by combining data from various fields, in
particular programs for estimating precipitation data from
satellite imagery;
programs for statistical processing of the data into
information including time and space series analysis and
synthesis ;
programs for relating various components of the hydrologic
cycle using models of various time increments and space
elements, for various hydrological and meteorological
applications ;
programs for producing graphical displays from digital data
(e.g. hydrographs, maps) or from combined digital and
photographic data and vice versa.