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Combining multi-spectral satellite data and machine learning has been suggested as a method for monitoring plastic pollutants in the ocean environment. Recent studies have made theoretical progress regarding the identification of marine…
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In this work, we build upon the recently introduced Multiscale Robin Coupled Method with Oversampling and Smoothing (MRCM-OS) to develop two highly efficient iterative multiscale methods. The MRCM-OS methodology demonstrated the ability to…
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