Abstract

The introduction of spatial resolution to laser induced breakdown spectroscopy results in improved environmental analysis, such as aerosols and soils. Spatial resolution was introduced either as 2D chemical vision or as ID information that maintains high quality spectral data. The additional information was used for matrix effect compensation and for exchanging the temporal gating by spatial resolution. A new data acquisition scheme, which overcomes known signal variations, was also suggested.

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