While accessible, free satellite data has its limitations; both temporal and spatial resolutions were lower than we needed, and our study would've greatly benefitted from access to hyperspectral data. Besides these drawbacks, the overall cost of the work done was minimal, especially compared to the costs associated with performing this geology the "traditional' way through field work and direct observation.
Cloud coverage and the lack of accessible Hyperspectral, SAR, and LiDAR data for La Palma island prevented us from using some of the methods we had planned to employ in documenting the changes caused by the 2021 eruption, though we were still able to get a good picture of the size and scope of the damages to local communities as well as the change to the geography of the island itself.

Classification and spectral analyses of the new flows shows that the composition of the lava was mostly unchanged from previous eruptions, this corroborates existing literature regarding lava compositions from the active fields of La Palma being primarily monogenetic, with any variation likely contamination from assimilated country rock.​