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Pebesma, E.J. (2009). How We Build Geostatistical Models and Deal with Their Output. In: Pilz, J. (eds) Interfacing Geostatistics and GIS. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33236-7_1

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