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Understanding the spatial and spectral dependencies of these models is imperative to result interpretation, scaling, and deploying models. We leveraged high spatial resolution hyperspectral data collected with an unmanned aerial system mounted sensor (272 spectral bands from 0.4\u20131 \u03bcm at 0.063 m GSD) to estimate silage yield. We subjected our imagery to three band selection algorithms to quantitatively assess spectral reflectance features applicability to yield estimation. We then derived 11 spectral configurations, which were spatially resampled to multiple GSDs, and applied to a support vector regression (SVR) yield estimation model. Results indicate that accuracy degrades above 4 m GSD across all configurations, and a seven-band multispectral sensor which samples the red edge and multiple near-infrared bands resulted in higher accuracy in 90% of regression trials. 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