This review focuses on the progress made and recent developments regarding the use of portable Raman spectrometric devices in the geosciences as well as with scientific testing of objects of cultural heritage. By utilizing different types of Raman spectrometric devices - from the modular; through systems operating with optical heads mounted via optical fibers; to the compact, lightweight, and handheld - are herein described and critically evaluated. The wide range of applications under indoor and closed environments (museums, collections, religious buildings, etc.) are reviewed, and the more commonly used for characterization of art in the broadest sense, as well as fully outdoor investigations (e.g., on rocky outcrops; of the minerals, microbiological colonization, etc.), and including extreme Earth environments and projects with exo-planetary research potential. The rapid acquisition of relevant spectroscopic data and the non-destructiveness of the analyses and diagnostics are greatly appreciated by art historians and conservators on the one hand, as well as by mineralogists, geoscientists, microbiologists on the other. The various environments investigated and the broad range of compounds that can be detected by obtaining their Raman spectra have demonstrated the vast potential of portable, and especially handheld, Raman spectrometer devices for on-site applications.

这篇评论的重点是在地球科学中使用便携式拉曼光谱设备以及对文化遗产对象进行科学测试方面取得的进展和最新发展。通过利用不同类型的拉曼光谱设备 - 从模块化；通过使用通过光纤安装的光学头运行的系统；到紧凑、轻便和手持式 - 在这里进行了描述和严格评估。回顾了室内和封闭环境（博物馆、收藏品、宗教建筑等）下的广泛应用，更常用于最广泛意义上的艺术表征，以及完全户外的调查（例如，在岩石露头上；矿物、微生物定殖等），包括极端地球环境和具有外行星研究潜力的项目。相关光谱数据的快速获取以及分析和诊断的非破坏性一方面受到艺术史学家和保护者的高度评价，另一方面也受到矿物学家、地球科学家、微生物学家的高度评价。所研究的各种环境以及通过获得拉曼光谱可以检测到的各种化合物已经证明了便携式，尤其是手持式拉曼光谱仪设备在现场应用中的巨大潜力。