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... Modeling Herbicide Exposure As the project evolved, the Columbia University researchers refined their approach to calculating the EOI. Rather than estimating it directly for a military unit on the basis of its location, they chose to calculate an exposure score for a series of contiguous grids that cover Vietnam and a military-unit occupancy probability, which represents the likelihood that an individual military unit will occupy any specific grid.
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... , and chemical agents; documented spraymission targets; herbicide storage, transport, and unplanned-dispersal information; military-unit identification codes; locations of military units, bases, structures, air Relets, and lancling zones; movements of combat troops; land features ~ 6; soil typology; and locations of civilian populations to calculate exposure opportunity. A paper published in the March 2003 edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives details the development and application of the GTS ant!
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