to assist researchers in using the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) crop growth models to analyze precision farming datasets. Because the DSSAT models are written to simulate crop growth and development within a homogenous unit of land,
DSSAT models to simulate and analyze spatially variable land and management.
the models to simulate historic spatial yield variability, validate the models for seasons not used for calibration,
and estimate the crop response and environmental impacts of nitrogen, plant population, cultivar, and irrigation prescriptions.