“…Principal components analysis (PCA) is normally employed to compress noisy and correlated data sets with minimal loss of information (Boehl et al, 2003;Surribas et al, 2006a;Haack et al, 2007;Rhee and Kang, 2007;Wolf et al, 2007). Partial least squares (PLS) regression appears to be the most popular chemometric method for calibrating 2D fluorescence maps with off-line bioprocess variables such as biomass, substrates and products of interest (Boehl et al, 2003;Lantz et al, 2006;Surribas et al, 2006b;Haack et al, 2007;Rhee and Kang, 2007). Due to the inherently nonlinear nature of biological processes, some authors have used artificial neural networks (ANN) (Wolf et al, 2001;Lee et al, 2005) and nonlinear PLS as calibration methods (Lee et al, 2006).…”