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We show that under idealized conditions the greedy mutual information maximization algorithm applied globally is equivalent to that applied cluster by cluster, but the latter has the advantage of being more scalable. Extensive numerical experiments are performed on a set of three-dimensional soil moisture data generated by a state-of-the-art soil moisture simulator. 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