Archaeological applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: An example from the Coso Volcanic Field, California, using advanced statistical signal processing analysis

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Remus, Jeremiah J ^a   Gottfried, Jennifer L ^b   Harmon, Russell S ^c   Draucker, Anne ^d   Baron, Dirk ^d   Yohe, Robert ^d  

^a Clarkson University   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPARATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BINARY CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; BROADBAND EMISSION SPECTRA; LASERINDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS); MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES - DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955963831     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.00C120     Document Type: Article

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