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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 42, No. 4 (1993), pp. 585-601 (17 pages) In this paper two-dimensional systematic sampling of land use is considered. Data ...

A study by the universities of Cordoba and Seville develops a method that makes it possible to verify, easily and quickly, whether an olive plantation is traditional, intensive, or super-intensive.