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The dynamical projectors method proves to reduce a multicomponent problem to the simplest one-component problem with its solution determined by specific initial or boundary conditions.
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This book describes in detail the following optical components and their applications: lenses, mirrors, diffraction gratings, optical windows, optical filters, beam splitters, light sources, infrared
This book rests upon a smooth integration between image fusion and data mining for information retrieval and content-based mapping in the context of different environmental applications, and it focuse
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