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CCMs captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are widely used in precision farming applications, but they are not suitable for the mapping of large or inaccessible areas. We further explore the spatiotemporal relationship of the CCMs and the NDVI for five observation dates during the growing season for eight selected crop fields in Germany with harvester-measured ground truth crop yield. Moreover, we explore different CCM normalization methods, as well as linear and non-linear regression algorithms, for the crop yield estimation. 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