No one enjoys a mushy tomato. But beyond aesthetics lies a serious problem for some West African nations, where significant portions of the fresh tomato harvest may be lost during transport from farm to market.
Spatial agro-ecologists from the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente in The Netherlands and elsewhere have used the IDV to analyze the relationship between observed weather conditions andthe microclimate inside truck trailers transporting tomatoes.
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