Satellite-based assessment of electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

A real-time understanding of the distribution and duration of power outages after a major disaster is a precursor to minimizing their harmful consequences. Here, we develop an approach for using daily satellite nighttime lights data to create spatially disaggregated power outage estimates, tracking...

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Main Authors: Miguel O Román, Eleanor C Stokes, Ranjay Shrestha, Zhuosen Wang, Lori Schultz, Edil A Sepúlveda Carlo, Qingsong Sun, Jordan Bell, Andrew Molthan, Virginia Kalb, Chuanyi Ji, Karen C Seto, Shanna N McClain, Markus Enenkel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218883