Early Landsat programmes were seen as the panacea for famine forecasting. But the images produced from the satellite are of doubtful value for monitoring rice production in southern Asia.
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Currey, B., Fraser, A. & Bardsley, K. How useful is Landsat monitoring?. Nature 328, 587–589 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/328587a0
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