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“May you live in interesting times!” ran the old Chinese curse. The early years of the third millennium are interesting times for astronomy, as a result of the tremendous advances in our computing and information processing environment and infrastructure. The advances in signal and image processing methods described in this book are of great topicality as a consequence. Let us look at some of the overriding needs of contemporary observational astronomical.
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Starck, JL., Murtagh, F. (2002). Introduction to Applications and Methods. In: Astronomical Image and Data Analysis. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04906-8_1
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