network for on-site quantitative analysis of soils using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, Elsevier, 2013Elsevier, , 78-79, pp.51-57. 10.1016Elsevier, /j.sab.2012 Artificial neural network for on-site quantitative analysis of soils using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy Nowadays, due to environmental concerns, fast on site quantitative analyses of soils are required. Laser in duced breakdown spectroscopy is a serious candidate to address this challenge and is especially well suited for multi elemental analysis of heavy metals. However, saturation and matrix effects prevent from a simple treatment of the LIBS data, namely through a regular calibration curve. This paper details the limits of this ap proach and consequently emphasizes the advantage of using artificial neural networks well suited for non linear and multi variate calibration. This advanced method of data analysis is evaluated in the case of real soil samples and on site LIBS measurements. The selection of the LIBS data as input data of the network is particularly detailed and finally, resulting errors of prediction lower than 20% for aluminum, calcium, cop per and iron demonstrate the good efficiency of the artificial neural networks for on site quantitative LIBS of soils.