RT Journal Article T1 Field deployment of a man-portable stand-off laser-induced breakdown spectrometer: A preliminary report on the expedition to the Cumbre Vieja volcano (La Palma, Spain, 2021) A1 Palanco-López, Santiago A1 Pérez-López, Raúl A1 Galindo-Jiménez, Inés A1 Bernal, Alberto A1 Rodríguez-Aranda, Sergio Eliseo A1 López-Escalante, María Cruz A1 Leinen, Dietmar A1 Mediato, Jose F. A1 López-Gutiérrez, Julio A1 Ramos-Barrado, José Ramón K1 Espectroscopía de plasma inducido por láser AB This paper reports on the expedition to the Cumbre Vieja volcano (Canary Islands, Spain) in November 2021 toassess stand-off laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for real-time measurements of the lava streams from asafe point. The paper provides insight on the analytical approach to the problem, the rationale of the instrumentdesign and construction carried out in three weeks, the experience with the new-born instrument at the volcanoand the preliminary results. Despite the subtle spectral differences among the samples and the signal variabilityinduced by the strong wind gusts at site, a statistical approach to data processing such as PCA, made possible toextract sufficient information and provide a robust classification tool. PB Elsevier YR 2022 FD 2022-04 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24280 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24280 LA spa NO Santiago Palanco, Raúl Pérez-López, Inés Galindo-Jiménez, Alberto Bernal, Sergio Aranda, María Cruz López-Escalante, Dietmar Leinen, Jose F. Mediato, Julio López-Gutiérrez, José R. Ramos-Barrado, Field deployment of a man-portable stand-off laser-induced breakdown spectrometer: A preliminary report on the expedition to the Cumbre Vieja volcano (La Palma, Spain, 2021), Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, Volume 190, 2022, 106391, ISSN 0584-8547, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2022.106391 NO We express our sincere gratitude to the Spanish Unidad Militar de Emergencias (UME) for providing essential support, security, and expertise at the field. We would like to thank Carlos Malag ́on (Astro- shop, M ́alaga, Spain) for donating the telescope used in the stand-off LIBS instrument, to the personnel of the Chemical Analysis Area and the Machine Shop of the Central Facility for Research Support (SCAI-UMA) and to Profs. E.R. Losilla and A. Cabeza (Dept. Química Inorgánica, Cristalografía y Mineralogía, UMA) and D. Marrero (Dept. Física Aplicada I, UMA) for their valuable comments and advice with the surrogate samples. This work has been partially supported by the I Plan Propio de Investigaci ́on de la Universidad de M ́alaga, the Extraordinary Funding (RD 1078/2021, 7th December, Núm. 293 Sec. I. P ́ag. 150,995) and PID2020-113407RB-I00 granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN). Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 19 ene 2026