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Remote sensing power loss in Puerto Rico

The goal of this project is to investigate the effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico’s electricity sector in the months following the storm using satellite imagery of nighttime lights. Using the patterns of outage duration and magnitude identified in this process, I also investigate the extent to which various physical, demographic and socioeconomic variables correlate with outage severity in the months immediately following Maria.  Additionally, block group-level population changes between the 2010 and 2020 decennial U.S. censuses are assessed in an attempt to identify possible predictors of observed change using a suite of covariates that include physical and socioeconomic variables as well as the measure of outage and recovery from Maria.

(paper forthcoming)