Patent ID: 8436987

Claim:
A method comprising: illuminating a region of interest to thereby generate a first plurality of interacted photons; filtering said first plurality of interacted photons; detecting said first plurality of interacted photons to thereby generate a test data set representative of said region of interest; analyzing said test data set to thereby identify a unknown sample within said region of interest; illuminating a first portion of said unknown sample to thereby generate a second plurality of interacted photons; illuminating a second portion of said unknown sample to thereby generate a third plurality of interacted photons; filtering at least one of said second plurality of interacted photons and said third plurality of interacted photons; detecting said second plurality of interacted photons to thereby generate a LIBS data set representative of said unknown sample; detecting said third plurality of interacted photons to thereby generate a Raman data set representative of said unknown sample; and analyzing at least one of said LIBS data set and said Raman data set to thereby identify said unknown sample.